Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Koresh, whose right hand I have held, that I may subdue nations before him, and loose the loins of kings; that I may open before him doors and gates which shall not be shut;

I will go before thee, and make the mountainous places level: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayst know that I, the Lord, who call thee by thy name, am the God of Yisra᾽el.

For Ya῾aqov my servant’s sake, and Yisra᾽el my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else,

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I, the Lord, do all these things.

Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up also; I, the Lord, have created it.

Woe to him that strives with his maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What makest thou? as for thy work, it has no hands?

Woe to him that says to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, With what art thou in travail?

Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Yisra᾽el, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command me.

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, says the Lord of hosts.

Thus says the Lord, The labour of Miżrayim, and the merchandise of Kush and of the Seva᾽im, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee, they shall make supplication to thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no other God.

Verily Thou art a God who hidest Thyself, Thou are the God of Yisra᾽el who savest them.

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

But Yisra᾽el shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded to all eternity.

For thus says the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he has established it, he did not create it a waste land, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of a land of darkness: I said not to the seed of Ya῾aqov, Seek me in an empty waste: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge, those that carry about their wooden carved idol, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Declare and bring them near; let them take counsel together: who declared this from ancient time? who told it from that time? did not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a deliverer; there is none beside me.

Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

I have sworn by myself, a word of righteousness is gone out of my mouth, a word that shall not be reversed, That to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Surely, he said to me, in the Lord there is righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

In the Lord shall all the seed of Yisra᾽el be justified, and shall glory.