Isaiah 45

The Lord

⁷“I form the light
and create darkness;

I make peace
and create calamity.[1]

I the LORD, do all these things.

⁸Shower, O heavens, from above,
and let the skies rain down righteousness;

let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth,
and let it cause righteousness to spring up together.

I, the LORD, have created it.”

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⁹Woe to him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the ground, who strives with his Fashioner.
Does the clay say to its Fashioner,

Clay

“What are you making?”

Or “Your work has no hands”?

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¹⁰Woe to him, who says to a father,

Unnamed individual

“What are you begetting?”

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Or to a woman,

Unnamed individual

“What are you bearing?”

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¹¹Thus says the LORD,
the Holy One of Israel and its Fashioner:

The Lord

“Ask me concerning things to come;
will you command Me concerning my children and concerning the work of My hands?

¹²I made the earth,
and I have created the human upon it.

It is I; My hands stretched out the heavens,
and commanded all their hosts.

¹³It is I; I have aroused him in righteousness,
and I will make straight all his ways;

he will build My city
and set free My exiles,

not for price
nor reward,”

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says the LORD of Hosts.

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¹⁴Thus says the LORD,

The Lord

“The wealth of Egypt, and the merchandise of Cush,
and the Sabeans, people of stature,

will pass over to you and be yours;
they will walk behind you.

They will pass over to you in chains, and bow down to you;
they will make supplications:

People of stature

‘Surely God is with you,
and there is none other save God.’”

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¹⁵Truly You are a God who hides Yourself,

O God of Israel,
the Savior.

¹⁶All of them are shamed and confounded;
together they walk in confusion, the makers of idols.

¹⁷Israel is saved by the LORD
with an everlasting salvation.

The Lord (to His people)

You will not be shamed
nor confounded for all eternity.

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¹⁸For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens,
He is God, who fashioned the earth

and made it.
He established it;

He did create it—not a chaos—
He formed it to be inhabited.

The Lord

“I am the LORD,
and there is no other.

¹⁹I did not speak in secret at a place in the land of darkness;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in chaos.’

I, the LORD, speak the truth,
declaring what is right.

²⁰Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near, survivors of nations.

They who carry their idol of wood know nothing;
they who pray to a god that cannot save.

²¹Declare and bring it forth.
Let them counsel together.

Who announced this long ago?
Was it not I, the LORD, who declared it of old?

And there is no other God beside Me, a righteous God
and the Savior; there is none besides Me.

²²Turn to Me and be saved,
all ends of the earth,

for I am God,
and there is no other.

²³I have sworn by Myself;
righteousness has gone forth from My mouth,
and a word that will not return.

For every knee will bow,
and every tongue will swear to Me.

²⁴Moreover, let it be said:

Unnamed individuals

‘Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength!
To Him will come all who were angry against Him, and they will be ashamed.

²⁵Through the Lord, all the seed of Israel will become righteous,
and they will glory.’”