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nations before himand disarm<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.1.1">A</a> kings,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.1.3">c</a>to open doors before him,and even city gates will not be shut: <A name="3"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-2.htm">2</a>“I will go before youand level the uneven places;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.2.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.2.1">a</a>I will shatter the bronze doorsand cut the iron bars in two.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.2.2">b</a> <A name="4"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-3.htm">3</a>I will give you the treasures of darknessand riches from secret places,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.3.1">a</a>so that you may know that I am the Lord.I am the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.3.2">b</a> <A name="5"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-4.htm">4</a>I call you by your name,for the sake of my servant Jacob<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.4.1">a</a>and Israel my chosen one.I give a name to you,though you do not know me. <A name="6"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-5.htm">5</a>I am the Lord, and there is no other;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.5.1">a</a>there is no God but me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.5.2">b</a>I will strengthen<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.5.1">A</a> you,though you do not know me, <A name="7"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-6.htm">6</a>so that all may know from the rising of the sun to its settingthat there is no one but me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.6.1">a</a>I am the Lord, and there is no other. <A name="8"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-7.htm">7</a>I form light and create darkness,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.7.1">a</a>I make success and create disaster;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.7.2">b</a>I am the Lord, who does all these things.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="9"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-8.htm">8</a>“Heavens, sprinkle from above,and let the skies shower righteousness.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.8.1">a</a>Let the earth open upso that salvation will sproutand righteousness will spring up with it.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.8.2">b</a>I, the Lord, have created it.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="10"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-9.htm">9</a>“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker —one clay pot among many.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.9.1">A</a>Does clay say to the one forming it,‘What are you making? ’<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.9.1">a</a>Or does your work say,‘He has no hands’?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.9.2">B</a> <A name="11"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-10.htm">10</a>Woe to the one who says to his father,‘What are you fathering? ’or to his mother,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.10.1">A</a>‘What are you giving birth to? ’ ” <A name="12"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-11.htm">11</a>This is what the Lord,the Holy One of Israel<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.11.1">a</a> and its Maker, says:“Ask me what is to happen to<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.11.1">A</a> my sons,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.11.2">b</a>and instruct me about the work of my hands.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.11.3">c</a> <A name="13"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-12.htm">12</a>I made the earth,and created humans on it.It was my hands that stretched out the heavens,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.12.1">a</a>and I commanded everything in them. <A name="14"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-13.htm">13</a>I have stirred him up in righteousness,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.13.1">a</a>and will level all roads for him.He will rebuild my city,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.13.2">b</a>and set my exiles free,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.13.3">c</a>not for a price or a bribe,”says the Lord of Armies.</blockquote><h3 class="head1">God Alone Is the Savior</h3> <A name="15"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-14.htm">14</a>This is what the Lord says:<blockquote class="poetryblock">“The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cushand the Sabeans, men of stature,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.14.1">a</a>will come over to you<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.14.2">b</a>and will be yours;they will follow you,they will come over in chainsand bow down to you.They will confess<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.14.1">A</a> to you,‘God is indeed with you,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.14.3">c</a> and there is no other;there is no other God.’ ”</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="16"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-15.htm">15</a>Yes, you are a God who hides,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.15.1">a</a>God of Israel, Savior.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.15.2">b</a> <A name="17"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-16.htm">16</a>All of them are put to shame, even humiliated;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.16.1">a</a>the makers of idols go in humiliation together. <A name="18"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-17.htm">17</a>Israel will be saved by the Lordwith an everlasting salvation;you will not be put to shame or humiliatedfor all eternity.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.17.1">a</a></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="19"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-18.htm">18</a>For this is what the Lord says —the Creator of the heavens,the God who formed the earth and made it,the one who established it(he did not create it to be a wasteland,but formed it to be inhabited)<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.18.1">a</a> —he says, “I am the Lord,and there is no other. <A name="20"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-19.htm">19</a>I have not spoken in secret,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.19.1">a</a>somewhere in a land of darkness.I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:Seek me in a wasteland.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.19.2">b</a>I am the Lord, who speaks righteously,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.19.3">c</a>who declares what is right.</blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"> <A name="21"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-20.htm">20</a>“Come, gather together,and approach, you fugitives of the nations.Those who carry their wooden idolsand pray to a god who cannot save<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.20.1">a</a>have no knowledge.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.20.2">b</a> <A name="22"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-21.htm">21</a>Speak up and present your case<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.45.21.1">a</a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.21.1">a</a> —yes, let them consult each other.Who predicted this long ago?Who announced it from ancient times?Was it not I, the Lord?There is no other God but me,a righteous God and Savior;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.21.2">b</a>there is no one except me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.21.3">c</a> <A name="23"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-22.htm">22</a>Turn to me and be saved,all the ends of the earth.For I am God,and there is no other. <A name="24"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-23.htm">23</a>By myself I have sworn;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.23.1">a</a>truth has gone from my mouth,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.23.2">b</a>a word that will not be revoked:Every knee will bow<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.23.3">c</a> to me,every tongue will swear allegiance. <A name="25"></a><a href="/isaiah/45-24.htm">24</a>It will be said about me, ‘Righteousness and strengthare found only in the Lord.’ ”All who are enraged against himwill come to him and be put to shame.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.45.24.1">a</a> <a href="/isaiah/45-25.htm">25</a>All the descendants of Israelwill be justified and boast in the Lord.</blockquote> <section id="footnotes-Isaiah.45" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.1.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.1">45:1</a> Lit unloosen the waist of</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.2.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.2">45:2</a> DSS, LXX read the mountains</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.5.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.5">45:5</a> Lit gird</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.9.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.9">45:9</a> Lit a clay pot with clay pots of the ground</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.9.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.9">45:9</a> Or making? Your work has no hands.</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.10.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.10">45:10</a> Lit to a woman</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.11.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.11">45:11</a> Or me the coming things about</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.14.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.14">45:14</a> Lit pray</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.45.21.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.21">45:21</a> Lit and approach</aside> <section id="cross-references-Isaiah.45" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.1.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.1">45:1</a> Is 44:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.1.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.1">45:1</a> Ps 73:23; Is 41:13; 42:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.1.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.1">45:1</a> Jb 12:21; Is 45:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.2.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.2">45:2</a> Is 40:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.2.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.2">45:2</a> Ps 107:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.3.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.3">45:3</a> Jr 41:8; 50:37</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.3.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.3">45:3</a> Ex 33:12,17; Is 43:1; 49:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.4.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.4">45:4</a> Is 41:8; 42:19</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.5.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.5">45:5</a> Is 45:6,14,18,21; 46:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.5.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.5">45:5</a> Is 44:6,8</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.6.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.6">45:6</a> Ps 102:15; Is 37:20; Mal 1:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.7.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.7">45:7</a> Ps 104:20; 105:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.7.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.7">45:7</a> Gn 50:20; 1Sm 16:14; 1Kg 21:21; 22:8; 2Kg 6:33; Jb 2:10; Ps 78:49; Is 13:11; 31:2; 47:11; Jr 1:14; Lm 3:38; Am 3:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.8.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.8">45:8</a> Hs 10:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.8.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.8">45:8</a> Ps 85:11; Is 61:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.9.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.9">45:9</a> Is 29:16; 64:8; Jr 18:6; Rm 9:20–21</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.11.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.11">45:11</a> Is 1:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.11.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.11">45:11</a> Jr 31:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.11.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.11">45:11</a> Is 19:25; 29:23; 60:21; 64:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.12.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.12">45:12</a> Ps 104:2; Is 42:5; 44:24</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.13.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.13">45:13</a> Is 41:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.13.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.13">45:13</a> 2Ch 36:22–23; Is 44:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.13.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.13">45:13</a> Is 52:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.14.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.14">45:14</a> Is 18:1; 43:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.14.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.14">45:14</a> Is 14:1–2; 49:23; 54:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.14.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.14">45:14</a> 1Co 14:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.15.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.15">45:15</a> Ps 44:24; Is 1:15; 8:17; 57:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.15.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.15">45:15</a> Is 43:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.16.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.16">45:16</a> Is 42:17; 44:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.17.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.17">45:17</a> Ps 37:19; Is 49:23; 50:7; 54:4; Jl 2:26–27; Zph 3:11; Rm 9:33; 10:11; 1Pt 2:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.18.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.18">45:18</a> Gn 1:26; Ps 115:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.19.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.19">45:19</a> Is 48:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.19.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.19">45:19</a> 2Ch 15:2; Ps 78:34; Jr 29:13–14</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.19.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.19">45:19</a> Ps 19:8; Is 45:23; 63:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.20.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.20">45:20</a> Is 44:17; 46:1,7; Jr 10:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.20.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.20">45:20</a> Is 44:18–19; 48:5–7</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.21.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.21">45:21</a> Is 41:21–23; 43:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.21.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.21">45:21</a> Is 43:3,11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.21.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.21">45:21</a> Dt 4:35; 6:4; Mk 12:32</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.23.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.23">45:23</a> Gn 22:16; Is 62:8; Heb 6:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.23.2"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.23">45:23</a> Is 55:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.23.3"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.23">45:23</a> Rm 14:11; Php 2:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.45.24.1"><a href="#start-Isaiah.45.24">45:24</a> Is 41:11</aside> <section id="study-notes-Isaiah.45" class="snSection"> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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