The Characteristic Distinction Between Inspiration and Providential Equipment

Isaiah 45:5
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me:

Providential equipment consists in being girded by a God who may be more or less unknown. Inspiration implies that God's chosen agent has all his faculties filled with God's presence as He girds.

(T. G. Selby, D. D.)

Parallel Verses

KJV: I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

WEB: I am Yahweh, and there is none else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me;