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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 45 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; 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<t><p class="indent1">To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut: <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“I will go before you and level the mountains; <t><p class="indent1">I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“I will give you the treasures of darkness [the hoarded treasures] <t><p class="indent1">And the hidden riches of secret places, <t><p class="indent1">So that you may know that it is I, <t><p class="indent1">The LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you (Cyrus the Great) by your name. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“For the sake of Jacob My servant, <t><p class="indent1">And of Israel My chosen, <t><p class="indent1">I have also called you by your name; <t><p class="indent1">I have given you an honorable name <t><p class="indent1">Though you have not known Me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“I am the LORD, and there is no one else; <t><p class="indent1">There is no God except Me. <t><p class="indent1">I will embrace <i>and</i> arm you, though you have not known Me, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That people may know from the rising to the setting of the sun [the world over] <t><p class="indent1">That there is no one except Me. <t><p class="indent1">I am the LORD, and there is no other, <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The One forming light and creating darkness, <t><p class="indent1">Causing peace and creating disaster; <t><p class="indent1">I am the LORD who does all these things. <p class="hdg">God’s Supreme Power</p><poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Rain down, O heavens, from above, <t><p class="indent1">Let the clouds pour down righteousness [all the blessings of God]; <t><p class="indent1">Let the earth open up, let salvation bear fruit, <t><p class="indent1">And righteousness spring up with it; <t><p class="indent1">I, the LORD, have created it. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who quarrels with his Maker-- <t><p class="indent1">A [worthless] piece of broken pottery among other broken pieces [equally worthless]! <t><p class="indent1">Shall the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ <t><p class="indent1">Or does the thing say, ‘He has no hands’? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who says to a father, ‘What are you fathering?’ <t><p class="indent1">Or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker says this, <p class="indent1stline">“Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons, <t><p class="indent1">And give Me orders concerning the work of My hands. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“I made the earth and created man upon it. <t><p class="indent1">My hands, stretched out the heavens, <t><p class="indent1">And I commanded all their host. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“I have stirred up Cyrus <i>and</i> put him into action in righteousness [to accomplish My purpose] <t><p class="indent1">And I will make all his ways smooth; <t><p class="indent1">He will build My city and let My exiles go, <t><p class="indent1">Without any payment or reward,” says the LORD of hosts. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For this is what the LORD says, <p class="indent1stline">“The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush (ancient Ethiopia) <t><p class="indent1">And the Sabeans, men of stature, <t><p class="indent1">Will come over to you and they will be yours; <t><p class="indent1">They will walk behind you, in chains [of subjection to you] they will come over, <t><p class="indent1">And they will bow down before you; <t><p class="indent1">They will make supplication to you, [humbly and earnestly] <i>saying,</i> <t><p class="indent1"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>‘Most certainly God is with you, and there is no other, <t><p class="indent1">No other God [besides Him].’” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Truly, You are a God who hides Himself, <t><p class="indent1">O God of Israel, Savior! <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They will be put to shame and also humiliated, all of them; <t><p class="indent1">They who make idols will go away together in humiliation. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Israel has been saved by the LORD <t><p class="indent1">With an everlasting salvation; <t><p class="indent1">You will not be put to shame or humiliated <t><p class="indent1">for all eternity. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For the LORD, who created the heavens <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>(He is God, who formed the earth and made it; He established it and did not create it to be a wasteland, but formed it to be inhabited) says this, <p class="indent1stline">“I am the LORD, and there is no one else. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“I have not spoken in secret, <t><p class="indent1">In a corner of a land of darkness; <t><p class="indent1">I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, <t><p class="indent1">‘Seek Me in vain [with no benefit for yourselves].’ <t><p class="indent1">I, the LORD, speak righteousness [the truth--trustworthy, a straightforward correlation between deeds and words], <t><p class="indent1">Declaring things that are upright. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Assemble yourselves and come; <t><p class="indent1">Come together, you survivors of the nations! <t><p class="indent1">They are ignorant, <t><p class="indent1">Who carry around their wooden idols [in religious processions or into battle] <t><p class="indent1">And keep on praying to a god that cannot save them. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Declare and present <i>your defense of idols;</i> <t><p class="indent1">Indeed, let them consult together. <t><p class="indent1">Who announced this [rise of Cyrus and his conquests] long before <i>it happened?</i> <t><p class="indent1">Who declared it long ago? <t><p class="indent1">Was it not I, the LORD? <t><p class="indent1">And there is no other God besides Me, <t><p class="indent1">A [consistently and uncompromisingly] just <i>and</i> righteous God and a Savior; <t><p class="indent1">There is none except Me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; <t><p class="indent1">For I am God, and there is no other. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“I have sworn [an oath] by Myself, <t><p class="indent1">The word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness <t><p class="indent1">And shall not return, <t><p class="indent1">That to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear [allegiance]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“It shall be said of Me, ‘Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.’ <t><p class="indent1">To Him people will come, <t><p class="indent1">And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/45-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“In the LORD all the offspring of Israel <t><p class="indent1">Will be justified (declared free of guilt) and will glory [in God].”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> These words foretell the fact that salvation will be available to believing Gentiles, as well as Jews.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Longer parenthetical passages such as this one are in the Hebrew text, and should not be confused with the general use of parentheses as a way to define or modify the previous word or group of words.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/44.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 44"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 44" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/46.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 46"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 46" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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