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[1]Thus saith the Lord unto Cyrus his anointed, whose right hand I have holden to subdue nations before him: therefore will I weaken the loins of kings and open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
[2]I will go before thee and make the crooked straight: I will break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.
[3]And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and the things hid in secret places, that thou mayest know that I am the Lord which call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel.
[4]For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I will even call thee by thy name and name thee, though thou hast not known me.
[5]I am the Lord and there is none other: there is no God besides me: I girded thee though thou hast not known me,
[6]That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none other.
[7]I form the light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
[8]Ye heavens, send the dew from above, and let the clouds drop down righteousness: let the earth open, and let salvation and justice grow forth: let it bring them forth together: I the Lord have created him.
[9]Woe be unto him that striveth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, It hath none hands?
[10]Woe unto him that saith to his father, What hast thou begotten? Or to his mother, What hast thou brought forth?
[11]Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the works of mine hands: command you me.
[12]I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, whose hands have spread out the heavens, I have even commanded all their army.
[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, saith the Lord of hosts.
[14]Thus saith the Lord, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature shall come unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall follow thee, and shall go in chains: they shall fall down before thee, and make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, and there is none other God besides.
[15]Verily thou, O God, hidest thyself, O God, the Savior of Israel.
[16]All they shall be ashamed and also confounded: they shall go to confusion together, that are the makers of images.
[17]But Israel shall be saved in the Lord, with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
[18]For thus saith the Lord (that created heaven, God himself, that formed the earth, and made it: he that prepared it, he created it not in vain: he formed it to be inhabited) I am the Lord, and there is none other.
[19]I have not spoken in secret, neither in a place of darkness in the earth: I said not in vain unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me: I the Lord do speak righteousness, and declare righteous things.
[20]Assemble yourselves, and come: draw near together, ye abject of the Gentiles: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their idol, and pray unto a god, that cannot save them.
[21]Tell ye and bring them, and let them take counsel together, who hath declared this from the beginning? Or hath told it of old? Have not I the Lord? And there is none other God beside me, a just God, and a Savior: there is none beside me.
[22]Look unto me, and ye shall be saved: all the ends of the earth shall be saved: for I am God, and there is none other.
[23]I have sworn by myself: the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That every knee shall bow unto me, and every tongue shall swear by me.
[24]Surely he shall say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength: he shall come unto him, and all that provoke him, shall be ashamed.
[25]The whole seed of Israel shall be justified, and glory in the Lord.
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