45Isaiah 45

CHAP. XLV. / 1 God calleth Cyrus for his Churches sake. 5 By his omnipotencie he challengeth obedience. 20 Hee conuinceth the idoles of vanitie, by his sauing power.

1Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed, to Cyrus whose right hande I haue holden, to subdue nations before him: and I will loose the loines of kings to open before him the two leaued gates, and the gates shall not be shut.Select Isaiah 45:1

2I will goe before thee, and make the crooked places straight, I wil break in pieces the gates of brasse, and cut in sunder the barres of yron.Select Isaiah 45:2

3And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, & hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know, that I the Lord which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.Select Isaiah 45:3

4For Iacob my seruants sake, and Israel mine elect, I haue euen called thee by thy name: I haue surnamed thee, though thou hast not knowen me.Select Isaiah 45:4

5I am the Lord, and there is none els, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not knowen me:Select Isaiah 45:5

6That they may knowe from the rising of the Sun, and from the West, that there is none besides me, I am the Lord, and there is none else.Select Isaiah 45:6

7I forme the light, and create darkenesse: I make peace, and create euill: I the Lord do all these things.Select Isaiah 45:7

8Drop downe, ye heauens, from aboue, and let the skies powre downe righteousnesse: let the earth open, and let them bring forth saluation, and let righteousnesse spring vp together: I the Lord haue created it.Select Isaiah 45:8

9Woe vnto him that striueth with his maker: Let the potsheard striue with the potsheards of the earth: shal the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, he hath no hands?Select Isaiah 45:9

10Woe vnto him that saith vnto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?Select Isaiah 45:10

11Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his maker, Aske me of things to come concerning my sonnes, and concerning the worke of my hands command ye me.Select Isaiah 45:11

12I haue made the earth, and created man vpon it: I, euen my handes haue stretched out the heauens, and all their hoste haue I commanded.Select Isaiah 45:12

13I haue raised him vp in righteousnesse, and I will direct all his wayes: he shall build my citie, and hee shall let goe my captiues, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.Select Isaiah 45:13

14Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature shall come ouer vnto thee, and they shall be thine, they shall come after thee, in chaines they shall come ouer: and they shal fall downe vnto thee, they shal make supplication vnto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, there is no god.Select Isaiah 45:14

15Uerely thou art a God that hidest thy selfe, O God of Israel the Sauiour.Select Isaiah 45:15

16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded all of them: they shall goe to confusion together that are makers of idoles.Select Isaiah 45:16

17But Israel shall bee saued in the Lord with an euerlasting saluation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.Select Isaiah 45:17

18For thus saith the Lord that created the heauens, God himselfe that formed the earth and made it, hee hath established it, he created it not in vaine, he formed it to be inhabited, I am the Lord, and there is none else.Select Isaiah 45:18

19I haue not spoken in secret, in a darke place of the earth: I said not vnto the seed of Iacob, Seeke ye mee in vaine: I the Lord speake righteousnesse, I declare things that are right.Select Isaiah 45:19

20Assemble your selues and come: draw neere together ye that are escaped of the nations: they haue no knowledge that set vp the wood of their grauen image, and pray vnto a god that cannot saue.Select Isaiah 45:20

21Tell ye and bring them neere, yea let them take counsell together, who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? Haue not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me, a iust God and a Sauiour, there is none beside me.Select Isaiah 45:21

22Looke vnto mee, and be ye saued all the endes of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.Select Isaiah 45:22

23I haue sworne by my selfe: the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousnes, and shall not returne, that vnto me euery knee shall bowe, euery tongue shall sweare.Select Isaiah 45:23

24Surely, shall one say, In the Lord haue I righteousnesse and strength: euen to him shall men come, and all that are incensed against him, shalbe ashamed.Select Isaiah 45:24

25In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be iustified, and shall glory.Select Isaiah 45:25