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
The LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armour, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall 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 make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart 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 hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel.
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 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.
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 one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, 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
that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no one else.
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 darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does 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
Rain, 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, 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 strives with his Maker— a clay pot amongst 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’?
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 a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”
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
The LORD, 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!
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
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.
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 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 the LORD of Armies.
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
The LORD says: “The labour 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.
15 surely you(m. s.) God to hide God Israel to save
Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Saviour.’”
16 be ashamed and also be humiliated all their together to go: went in/on/with shame artificer image
They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
17 Israel to save in/on/with LORD deliverance: salvation forever: enduring not be ashamed and not be humiliated till forever: enduring perpetuity
Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded 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 the LORD 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 the LORD. 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, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are 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
“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.
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
Declare 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, the LORD? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Saviour. There is no one besides me.
22 to turn to(wards) me and to save all end land: country/planet for I God and nothing still
“Look 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
I 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.
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
They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in the LORD.’” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
25 in/on/with LORD to justify and to boast: boast all seed: children Israel
All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the LORD, and will rejoice!
