< Isaiah 45 >
1 thus to say LORD to/for anointed his to/for Cyrus which to strengthen: hold in/on/with right his to/for to subdue to/for face: before his nation and loin king to open to/for to open to/for face: before his door and gate not to shut
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
2 I to/for face: before your to go: went and to honor (to smooth *Q(K)*) door bronze to break and bar iron to cut down/off
“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
3 and to give: give to/for you treasure darkness and treasure hiding because to know for I LORD [the] to call: call to in/on/with name your God Israel
I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
4 because servant/slave my Jacob and Israel chosen my and to call: call to to/for you in/on/with name your to flatter you and not to know me
For the sake of Jacob My servant and Israel My chosen one, I call you by name; I have given you a title of honor, though you have not known Me.
5 I LORD and nothing still exception me nothing God to gird you and not to know me
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
6 because to know from east sun (and from west her *LAH(b)*) for end beside me I LORD and nothing still
so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
7 to form: formed light and to create darkness to make peace: well-being and to create bad: evil I LORD to make: do all these
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
8 to drip heaven from above and cloud to flow righteousness to open land: country/planet and be fruitful salvation and righteousness to spring unitedness I LORD to create him
Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.
9 woe! to contend with to form: formed him earthenware with earthenware land: soil to say clay to/for to form: formed him what? to make and work your nothing hand to/for him
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
10 woe! to say to/for father what? to beget and to/for woman what? to twist: writh in pain [emph?]
Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
11 thus to say LORD holy Israel and to form: formed him [the] to come to ask me upon son: child my and upon work hand my to command me
Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: “How dare you question Me about My sons, or instruct Me in the work of My hands?
12 I to make land: country/planet and man upon her to create I hand my to stretch heaven and all army their to command
It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.
13 I to rouse him in/on/with righteousness and all way: conduct his to smooth he/she/it to build city my and captivity my to send: let go not in/on/with price and not in/on/with bribe to say LORD Hosts
I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
14 thus to say LORD toil Egypt and profit Cush and Sabeans human measure upon you to pass and to/for you to be after you to go: follow in/on/with fetter to pass and to(wards) you to bow to(wards) you to pray surely in/on/with you God and nothing still end God
This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and bow down to you. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’”
15 surely you(m. s.) God to hide God Israel to save
Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
16 be ashamed and also be humiliated all their together to go: went in/on/with shame artificer image
They will all be put to shame and humiliated; the makers of idols will depart together in disgrace.
17 Israel to save in/on/with LORD deliverance: salvation forever: enduring not be ashamed and not be humiliated till forever: enduring perpetuity
But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
18 for thus to say LORD to create [the] heaven he/she/it [the] God to form: formed [the] land: country/planet and to make her he/she/it to establish: make her not formlessness to create her to/for to dwell to form: formed her I LORD and nothing still
For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.
19 not in/on/with secrecy to speak: speak in/on/with place land: country/planet darkness not to say to/for seed: children Jacob formlessness to seek me I LORD to speak: speak righteousness to tell uprightness
I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
20 to gather and to come (in): come to approach: approach together survivor [the] nation not to know [the] to lift: bear [obj] tree: wood idol their and to pray to(wards) god not to save
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
21 to tell and to approach: bring also to advise together who? to hear: proclaim this from front: old from the past to tell her not I LORD and nothing still God from beside me God righteous and to save nothing exception me
Speak up and present your case— yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
22 to turn to(wards) me and to save all end land: country/planet for I God and nothing still
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
23 in/on/with me to swear to come out: come from lip my righteousness word and not to return: return for to/for me to bow all knee to swear all tongue
By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
24 surely in/on/with LORD to/for me to say righteousness and strength till him to come (in): come and be ashamed all [the] to be incensed in/on/with him
Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.
25 in/on/with LORD to justify and to boast: boast all seed: children Israel
In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.