THUS says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held - to subdue the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut:

2 'I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron.

3 I will give the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My elect, I have even called by your name; I have named you, though you have not  known Me.

5 I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God beside Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

6 That they may know from the rising the sun to its setting that there is none beside Me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.

7 I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create clamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.' 

8 "Rain down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up togather. I the LORD, have created it.

9 "Woe to him who strive with his Maker! Let the postherd strive with the postherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who form it, 'What are you making?' Or shall your handiwork say, 'He has no hands'?

10 Woe to him who say to his father, 'What are you begetting?' Or to the woman, 'What have you brought forth? ' "

11 Thus say the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: "Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; and concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.

12 I have made the earth, created man on it. I - My hands - stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded.

13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways; he shall  build My city and let My exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says the LORD of hosts.

14 Thus says the LORD: "The labor of Egypt and merchantise of Cush and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours; they shall walk behind you, they shall come over in chains; They will make supplication to you, saying,'  Surely God is in you, and there is no other; there is no other God.'  "

15 Truly You are God, who hide Yourself, O God  of Israel, the Savior!

16 They shall be ashamed and also be disgraced, all of them; they shall go in confusion to gather, who are maker of idols.

17 But Israel shall be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed or disgraced forever and ever.

18 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens, who is God, who formed the earth and made it,  who has established it, who did nor creat it vain, who formed it to be inhabited: "I am the LORD,  and there is no other.

19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain'; I, the LORD, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

20 "Assemble yourselves and come; draw near togather, you who have escaped from the nations. They have no knowledge, who carry the wood of their carved images, and pray to a god that cannot save.

21 Tell and bring forth your case; yes , let them take counsel togather. Who has told it from from that time? Have not, I the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

22 "Look to Me, and be saved, all you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

23 I have sworn by Myself; the word has gone out of My mouth in rughteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

24 He shall say, 'Surely in the LORD I have righteousness and strength.To him men shall come, and all shall be ashames who are incensed against Him.

25  In the LORD all the descendants of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.' " ISAIAH 45