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1 Thus says Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loosen the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
2 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, Jehovah, which call you by your name, am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my elect, I have even called you by your name: I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
5 I am Jehovah, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded you, though you have not known me:
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the West, that there is none beside me. I am Jehovah, and there is none else.
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make completeness, and create the disagreeable: I Jehovah do all these things.
8 Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the Earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I Jehovah have created it. *
9 Woe to him who strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the Earth. Shall the clay say to him who fashions it, What do you make? Or your work, He has no hands?
10 Woe to him who says to his father, What beget you? Or to the woman, What have you brought forth?
11 Thus says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command you me.
12 I have made the Earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says Jehovah of hosts.
14 Thus says Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours: they shall come after you; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to you, they shall make supplication to you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no God.
15 Verily you are a God that hides yourself, Oh God of Israel, the Savior.
16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together who are makers of idols.
17 But Israel shall be saved in Jehovah with an salvation of the Kingdom Age: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded through the Age of the Age.
18 For thus says Jehovah that created the heavens; God himself that formed the Earth and made it; he has established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the Earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I Jehovah speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their idol, and pray to a god that cannot save.
21 Tell you, and bring them near; yes, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I Jehovah ? And there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
22 Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the Earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. *
24 Surely, shall one say, in Jehovah have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
25 In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.