Isaiah 45:19
Good News Translation
I have not spoken in secret or kept my purpose hidden. I did not require the people of Israel to look for me in a desolate waste. I am the LORD, and I speak the truth; I make known what is right."

New Revised Standard Version
I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, “Seek me in chaos.” I the LORD speak the truth, I declare what is right.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD did not speak in a dark secret place or command Jacob's descendants to search for him in vain. The LORD speaks the truth, and this is what he says

New American Bible
I have not spoken in secret from some place in the land of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, “Look for me in an empty waste.” I, the LORD, promise justice, I declare what is right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.

spoken

Isaiah 43:9,10 All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is truth. . . .

Isaiah 48:16 Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.

Deuteronomy 29:29 Secret things to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 30:11-14 This commandment, that I command thee this day is not above thee, nor far off from thee: . . .

Proverbs 1:21 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

Proverbs 8:1-4 Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths, . . .

John 7:26,28 And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ? . . .

John 7:37-39 And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. . . .

John 18:20 Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing.

Acts 2:4-8 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. . . .

seek

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Isaiah 58:1-3 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. . . .

1 Chronicles 28:8 Now then before all the assembly of Israel, in the hearing of our God, keep ye, and seek all the commandments of the Lord our God: that you may possess the good land, and may leave it to your children after you for ever.

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.

Psalm 24:6 This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

Psalm 69:13,32 But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. . . .

Proverbs 15:8 The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Jeremiah 29:13 You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.

Amos 5:4 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live.

Malachi 3:13,14 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Matthew 15:8,9 This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me. . . .

James 4:3 You ask and receive not: because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your concupiscences.

speak righteousness

Isaiah 63:1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save.

Numbers 23:19,20 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil? . . .

Deuteronomy 32:4 The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

Psalm 9:10 And let them trust in thee who know thy name: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee, O Lord.

Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.

Psalm 19:7-10 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 111:7,8 That he may give them the inheritance of the Gentiles: the works of his hands are truth and judgment. . . .

Psalm 119:137,138 Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right. . . .

Proverbs 8:6 My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.

Context
God Calls Cyrus
18For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other. 19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I have not said to the seed of Jacob: Seek me in vain. I am the Lord that speak justice, that declare right things.20Assemble yourselves, and come, and draw near together, ye that are saved of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven work, and pray to a god that cannot save.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 15:2
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Psalm 19:8
The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the commandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes.

Psalm 78:34
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

Isaiah 43:12
I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God.

Isaiah 44:8
Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?

Isaiah 45:23
I have sworn by myself, the word of justice shall go out of my mouth, and shall not return:

Isaiah 45:25
Therefore shall he say: In the Lord are my justices and empire: they shall come to him, and all that resist him shall be confounded.

Isaiah 48:16
Come ye near unto me, and hear this: I have not spoken in secret from the beginning: from the time before it was done, I was there, and now the Lord God hath sent me, and his spirit.

Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

Isaiah 63:1
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bosra, this beautiful one in his robe, walking in the greatness of his strength. I, that speak justice, and am a defender to save.

Isaiah 65:9
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

Jeremiah 2:31
See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?

Jeremiah 29:13
You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:14
And I will be found by you, saith the Lord: and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you out of all nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you out, saith the Lord: and I will bring you back from the place to which I caused you to be carried away captive.

Isaiah 45:18
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