Isaiah 45

1Yahweh says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armor, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:Cross-references: 1Ki 19:15 · Ezra 1:1 · Job 12:21 · Ps 73:23 · Isa 13:3 · Isa 41:2 · +16 more

2“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.Cross-references: Ps 107:16 · Isa 13:4 · Isa 40:4 · Isa 42:16 · Jer 51:30 · Luke 3:5 · +1 more

3I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 33:12 · Ex 33:17 · Ezra 1:2 · Isa 41:23 · Isa 43:1 · Isa 48:15 · +6 more

4For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.Cross-references: Ex 19:5 · Isa 41:8 · Isa 43:3 · Isa 43:14 · Isa 44:1 · Isa 44:28 · +9 more

5I am Yahweh, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,Cross-references: Deut 4:35 · Deut 4:39 · Deut 32:39 · 1Ki 8:60 · Ezra 1:2 · Job 12:18 · +12 moreExamined: Mormonism →

6that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.Cross-references: 1Sam 17:46 · Ps 46:10 · Ps 83:18 · Ps 102:15 · Isa 37:20 · Isa 45:5 · +3 moreExamined: Mormonism →

7I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · Gen 1:17 · Ex 10:21 · Ex 14:20 · Job 2:10 · Job 34:29 · +23 more

8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.Cross-references: Ps 72:3 · Ps 72:6 · Ps 85:9 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 11:1 · Isa 32:15 · +18 more

9Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Job 15:24 · Job 40:8 · Ps 2:2 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 10:15 · +6 more

10Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”Cross-references: Deut 27:16 · Mal 1:6 · Heb 12:9

11Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!Cross-references: Gen 32:26 · Josh 10:12 · Judg 16:23 · Isa 19:25 · Isa 29:23 · Isa 43:3 · +22 more

12I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 2:1 · Neh 9:6 · Ps 102:25 · Isa 40:12 · Isa 40:22 · +8 more

13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:22 · Ezra 1:3 · Ps 65:5 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 41:2 · Isa 41:25 · +9 more

14Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.Cross-references: Ex 11:8 · Num 13:32 · 2Sam 21:20 · Esth 8:17 · Job 1:15 · Ps 68:30 · +27 more

15Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”Cross-references: Ps 44:24 · Ps 68:26 · Ps 77:19 · Isa 8:17 · Isa 12:2 · Isa 43:3 · +13 more

16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.Cross-references: Ps 97:7 · Isa 41:19 · Isa 42:17 · Isa 44:9 · Isa 44:11 · Isa 45:20 · +2 more

17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.Cross-references: Ps 25:3 · Ps 103:17 · Isa 26:4 · Isa 29:22 · Isa 45:25 · Isa 49:23 · +26 more

18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.Cross-references: Gen 1:2 · Gen 1:26 · Gen 1:28 · Gen 9:1 · Ps 115:16 · Isa 42:5 · +5 more

19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Deut 29:29 · Deut 30:11 · Deut 32:4 · 1Chr 28:8 · 2Chr 15:2 · +32 more

20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:26 · Ps 115:8 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 41:5 · Isa 41:21 · Isa 42:17 · +18 more

21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.Cross-references: Ps 26:7 · Ps 71:17 · Ps 96:10 · Isa 41:1 · Isa 41:22 · Isa 41:26 · +20 more

22“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.Cross-references: Num 21:8 · 2Chr 20:12 · Ps 22:17 · Ps 65:5 · Isa 45:21 · Isa 49:6 · +9 more

23I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.Cross-references: Gen 22:15 · Gen 31:53 · Num 23:19 · Deut 6:13 · 2Chr 15:14 · Neh 10:29 · +14 more

24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 72:9 · Ps 110:2 · Isa 26:4 · +27 more

25All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!Cross-references: 1Chr 16:13 · Ps 22:23 · Ps 64:10 · Isa 41:16 · Isa 45:17 · Isa 45:19 · +21 more