Isaiah 45
45:1Thus says the lord God to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I held, for nations to heed before him; and the strength of kings I will tear up; I will open doors before him, and gates shall not be closed up.
45:2I will go before you, and I shall level mountains. I shall break the doors of brass, and bars of iron I break in pieces.
45:3And I shall give to you treasures -- obscure, concealed, unseen. I will open to you that you should know that I am the lord your God, the one calling your name, the God of Israel.
45:4Because of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I shall call you by your name, and favorably receive you; though you did not know me.
45:5For I am the lord God, and there is not yet besides me -- there is not a god. I strengthened you, and you did not know me;
45:6that the ones from the east sun and the ones from the west should know that there is not one besides me. I am the lord God, and there is not any more.
45:7I am the one carefully preparing light, and I made darkness; the one making peace, and the one creating bad things. I am the lord God, the one doing all these things.
45:8Let the heaven above be glad, and let the clouds sprinkle righteousness! Let the earth arise, and burst forth mercy! And let righteousness burst forth together! I am the lord, the one creating you.
45:9What made better mortar of a potter? Will the one plowing plow the earth the entire day? Will the mortar say to the potter, What do you do that you do not work, nor have hands?
45:10Woe the one saying to the father, Why shall you engender me? and to the mother, Why shall you travail?
45:11For thus says the lord God, the holy one of Israel, the one making the coming things, Ask me concerning my sons. And concerning the works of my hands, shall you give charge to me!
45:12I made the earth, and man upon it. I solidified the heaven by my hand. I gave charge to all the stars.
45:13I raised him with righteousness as king, and all his ways are straight. He shall build my city, and the captivity of my people he shall return. Not by ransoms, nor by gifts, said the lord of Hosts.
45:14Thus says the lord of Hosts, Egypt tired for you, and the trade of the Ethiopians and the Sabeans, haughty men shall pass over you, and they will be your servants; and they shall follow after you being tied in manacles, and they shall pass over to you, and shall do obeisance to you, and they shall pray to you, for God is among you, and there is no God besides you.
45:15For you are God, and we did not know -- God of Israel, the deliverer.
45:16all the ones being an adversary to him shall be ashamed and shall feel remorse; and they shall go in shame. Be dedicated to me, O islands.
45:17Israel is delivered by the lord with an eternal deliverance; they shall not be ashamed, nor should they feel remorse unto the eon still.
45:18For thus says the lord, the one making the heaven, this God, the one introducing the earth and making it; he separated it, he did not make it empty, but he shaped it to dwell in; I am the lord, and there is none beside.
45:19I have not spoken in secret, nor in a place of the earth that is dark. I did not tell to the seed of Jacob, Seek a vain thing! I am the lord, the one speaking righteousness, and announcing truth.
45:20Gather together and come! Consult together! O ones being delivered from the nations. They are not knowing, the ones lifting their wood carving, and praying to a god which does not deliver.
45:21The ones that shall announce, let them approach that they should know together, who audibly did these things. From the beginning from then it was announced to you. Am I not the lord God? There is no other besides me -- just and a deliverer. There is none besides me.
45:22Turn unto me! and you shall be delivered, O ones from the end of the earth. I am God, and there is no other.
45:23According to myself I swear by an oath, that righteousness shall come forth from out of my mouth; my words shall not be perverted. For every knee shall bend to me, and every tongue shall swear by an oath by God,
45:24saying, Righteousness and glory shall come to him; and all the ones of them being separated from the lord shall be ashamed.
45:25They shall be justified, and in God they shall be glorified -- all the seed of the sons of Israel.