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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1This is what the LORD says to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, as I strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him and gates that cannot keep closed: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2 "I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I'll give you concealed treasures and riches hidden in secret places, so that you'll know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4For the sake of Jacob my servant, Israel my chosen, I've called you, and he has established you with a name, although you have not acknowledged me. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I am the LORD, and there is no other besides me: and there are no gods. I'm strengthening you, although you have not acknowledged me, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6so that from the sun's rising to the west people may know that there is none besides me. "I am the LORD, and there is no other." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"I form light and create darkness, I make goodness and create disaster. I am the LORD, who does all these things. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Shout, you skies above, and you clouds, and let righteousness stream down. I am the one who says to the earth, 'Let salvation blossom, and let righteousness sprout forth.' |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Woe to the one who quarrels with his makers, a mere potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Woe to the one who says to the one forming him, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no human hands?'! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Woe to the one who says to his father, 'What are you begetting?' or to a woman, 'To what are you giving birth?'!" |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11This is what the Lord says, the Creator of the signs: "Question me about my children? Or give me orders about the work of my hands? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I myself made the earth and personally created humankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the skies; I marshaled all their starry hosts." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"I have aroused him in righteousness, and I'll make all his pathways smooth. It is he who will rebuild my city and set my exiles free, but not for a price nor reward, " says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14This is what the LORD says: "The wealth of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, those Sabeans, men of great heights. They'll come over to you and will be yours; They'll trudge behind you— coming over in chains, they'll bow down to you. They'll plead with you, 'Surely God is in you; and there is no other God at all.'" |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16All of them will be put to shame—indeed, disgraced! The makers of idols will go off in disgrace together. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you won't be put to shame or disgraced ever again." |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For this is what the LORD says, who created the heavens— he is God, and the one who formed the earth and made it, and he is the one who established it; he didn't create it for chaos, but formed it to be inhabited— "I am the LORD and there is no other. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19I didn't speak in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I didn't say to Jacob's descendants, 'Seek me in chaos.' I, the LORD, speak truth, declaring what is right. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Gather together and come; draw near and enter, your fugitives from the nations. Those who carry around their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who keep praying to a god that cannot save. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Explain and present a case! Yes, let them take counsel together. Who announced this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides me, a righteous God and Savior; and there is none besides me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23By myself I have sworn— from my mouth has gone out integrity, a promise that won't be revoked: 'To me every knee will bow, and every tongue will swear. ' |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24One will say of me, 'Only in the LORD are victories and might.' All who raged against him will come to him and will be put to shame. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25In the LORD all the descendants of Israel will triumph and make their boast." |
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