Isaiah 45 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 45Cyrus, God’s Instrument

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I will break in pieces the doors of bronze

and cut through the bars of iron;

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and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also;

I the Lord have created it.

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Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, “What are you making”?

or “Your work has no handles”?

10Woe to anyone who says to a father, “What are you fathering?”

or to a woman, “With what are you in labor?”

11 about my children

or command me concerning the work of my hands?

12 in righteousness,

and I will make all his paths straight;

he shall build my city

and set my exiles free,

not for price or reward,

says the Lord of hosts.

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with everlasting salvation;

you shall not be put to shame or confounded

ever again.

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Who told this long ago?

Who declared it of old?

Was it not I, the Lord?

There is no other god besides me,

a righteous God and a Savior;

there is no one besides me.

22 Num 21.8, 9; Isa 30.15; 49.6, 12 Turn to me and be saved,

all the ends of the earth!

For I am God, and there is no other.

23 Isa 55.11; 62.8; 65.16; Rom 14.11 By myself I have sworn;

from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness

a word that shall not return:

“To me every knee shall bow,

every tongue shall swear.”

24 Isa 41.11; 54.17 Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,

are righteousness and strength;

all who were incensed against him

shall come to him and be ashamed.

25 Isa 53.11; 60.19 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel

shall triumph and glory.