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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/isaiah/45.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Cyrus, God’s Instrument</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-45-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> to His anointed,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-1">To Cyrus, whose right hand I have <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>held—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-1">To subdue nations before him</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-1">And loose the armor of kings,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-1">To open before him the double doors,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-1">So that the gates will not be shut:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>‘I will go before you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-2">And<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span> make the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>crooked places straight;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-2">I will break in pieces the gates of bronze</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-2">And cut the bars of iron.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I will give you the treasures of darkness</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-3">And hidden riches of secret places,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-3">That you may know that I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-3">Who call <i>you</i> by your name,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-3"><i>Am</i> the God of Israel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For Jacob My servant’s sake,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-4">And Israel My elect,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-4">I have even called you by your name;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-4">I have named you, though you have not known Me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I <i>am</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and <i>there is</i> no other;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-5"><i>There is</i> no God besides Me.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-5">I will gird you, though you have not known Me,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-6">That <i>there is</i> none besides Me.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-6">I <i>am</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and <i>there is</i> no other;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I form the light and create darkness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-7">I make peace and create calamity;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-7">I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, do all these <i>things.</i>’</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Rain down, you heavens, from above,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-8">And let the skies pour down righteousness;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-8">Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-8">And let righteousness spring up together.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-8">I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, have created it.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Woe to him who strives with his Maker!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-9"><i>Let</i> the potsherd <i>strive</i> with the potsherds of the earth!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-9">Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-9">Or shall your handiwork <i>say,</i> ‘He has no hands’?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Woe to him who says to <i>his</i> father, ‘What are you begetting?’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-10">Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’ ”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-11">The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-11">“Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-11">And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I have made the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-12">And created man on it.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-12">I—My hands—stretched out the heavens,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-12">And all their host I have commanded.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I have raised him up in righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-13">And I will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>direct all his ways;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-13">He shall build My city</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-13">And let My exiles go free,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-13">Not for price nor reward,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-13">Says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts.</span></p></div> <h3> The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, the Only Savior</span></h3><p><span class="text Isa-45-14"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Isa-45-14">“The labor of Egypt and merchandise of Cush</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14">And of the Sabeans, men of stature,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14">Shall come over to you, and they shall be yours;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14">They shall walk behind you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14">They shall come over in chains;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14">And they shall bow down to you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14">They will make supplication to you, <i>saying,</i> ‘Surely God <i>is</i> in you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14">And <i>there is</i> no other;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-14"><i>There is</i> no other God.’ ”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Truly You <i>are</i> God, who hide Yourself,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-15">O God of Israel, the Savior!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They shall be ashamed</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-16">And also disgraced, all of them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-16">They shall go in confusion together,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-16"><i>Who are</i> makers of idols.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><i>But</i> Israel shall be saved by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-17">With an everlasting salvation;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-17">You shall not be ashamed or disgraced</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-17">Forever and ever.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-18">Who created the heavens,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-18">Who is God,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-18">Who formed the earth and made it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-18">Who has established it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-18">Who did not create it <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>in vain,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-18">Who formed it to be inhabited:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-18">“I <i>am</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and <i>there is</i> no other.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I have not spoken in secret,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-19">In a dark place of the earth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-19">I did not say to the seed of Jacob,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-19">‘Seek Me <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>in vain’;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-19">I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, speak righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-19">I declare things that are right.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Assemble yourselves and come;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-20">Draw near together,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-20">You <i>who have</i> escaped from the nations.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-20">They have no knowledge,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-20">Who carry the wood of their carved image,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-20">And pray to a god <i>that</i> cannot save.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Tell and bring forth <i>your case;</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-21">Yes, let them take counsel together.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-21">Who has declared this from ancient time?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-21"><i>Who</i> has told it from that time?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-21"><i>Have</i> not I, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-21">And <i>there is</i> no other God besides Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-21">A just God and a Savior;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-21"><i>There is</i> none besides Me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Look to Me, and be saved,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-22">All you ends of the earth!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-22">For I <i>am</i> God, and <i>there is</i> no other.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I have sworn by Myself;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-23">The word has gone out of My mouth <i>in</i> righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-23">And shall not return,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-23">That to Me every knee shall bow,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-23">Every tongue shall take an oath.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He shall say,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-24"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>‘Surely in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> I have righteousness and strength.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-24">To Him <i>men</i> shall come,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-24">And all shall be ashamed</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-24">Who are incensed against Him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/45-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> all the descendants of Israel</span><br /><span class="text Isa-45-25">Shall be justified, and shall glory.’ ”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-18563a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 45:1">Isaiah 45:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>strengthened</i> or <i>sustained</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18564b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 45:2">Isaiah 45:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Tg. <i>I will trample down the walls;</i> Vg. <i>I will humble the great ones of the earth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18564c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 45:2">Isaiah 45:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>DSS, LXX <i>mountains</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18575d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 45:13">Isaiah 45:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>make all his ways straight</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18580e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 45:18">Isaiah 45:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>empty, a waste</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18581f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 45:19">Isaiah 45:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>in a waste place</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18586g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Isaiah 45:24">Isaiah 45:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Only in the <span class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> are all righteousness and strength</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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