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The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

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(2 Chronicles 36:22–23; Ezra 1:1–4)
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Cyrus is the one whom Yahweh has appointed to be the emperor of Persia and to whom he will give great power; Yahweh will enable him to defeat other nations and to take away the power of their kings. He will cause gates of cities to be opened, and no one will ever be able to shut them.
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This is what Yahweh says to him: “Cyrus, I will go ahead of you and level the mountains. I will smash down bronze gates and cut through their iron bars.
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I will give you treasures that people have hidden in dark secret places. I will do that in order that you will know that I am Yahweh, the God to whom the Israelites belong, the God who calls you by your name.
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I have summoned you, calling out your name, for the sake of the people of Israel whom I have chosen, who serve me. Even though you do not know me, I will give you a title that has great honor.
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I am Yahweh, and there is no other God. Even though you do not know me, I will give you power to wage war
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in order that everyone in the world, from the east to the west, will know that there is no other God. I am Yahweh, and there is no other God.
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I created the light and the darkness. I cause there to be peace and I cause there to be disasters. I, Yahweh, do all those things.”
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Yahweh also says, “Just like the rain falls on the earth to help it, I will help my people and rescue them; I will cause them to be treated justly. I, Yahweh, am the one who will cause both of those things to happen.
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Terrible things will happen to those who argue with me, because I am the one who created them. They are like clay pots who are arguing with the Potter who made them; they are just like every other clay pot that is made, and yet they argue with the One who made them and formed them out of the clay. Can a lump of clay say to the potter who made him, ‘Why are you making me like this?’ The clay pot cannot say ’What do you think you are doing, making me this way?” or “You have no skill and your clay pots are not worth anything!”
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And it would be terrible if an unborn baby would say to its father, ‘Why are you causing me to be born?’ or if it said to its mother, ‘The result of your labor pains will be useless.’”
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Yahweh, the Holy One of the Israelite people, the one who created Israel, says this to them: “Why do you ask questions about what I do for you, my children? Why do you instruct me about the work that I should do?
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I am the one who created the earth and created people to live on it. I stretched out the sky with my hands, and I put the stars in their places.
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And I have made Cyrus to desire to do things that are right, and I will enable him to do all those things easily. No one will be able to stop him. His workers will rebuild my city, and he will free my people who have been exiled. And he will do it without my rewarding him!” This is what Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, says.
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And this is also what I, Yahweh, say to you, my people: “You will rule the people of Egypt and Ethiopia, and the tall people of Seba will become your slaves. They will come to you bringing all the things that they sell, and it will all be yours. They will have chains on their arms as they follow you. They will bow down in front of you and say, ’God is with you and he is the only God; there is no other God.’”
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God, although we cannot see you, you are the one to whom we Israelite people belong, the one who saves us.
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All those who make idols will be humiliated. They will all be disgraced together.
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But you, Yahweh, will rescue us, your Israelite people, and we will be free forever. Never again, during all the future, will we again be humiliated and disgraced.
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Yahweh is God; he is the one who created the sky and created and formed the earth. He did not want it to remain with nothing living on it; he wanted people to live on it. He says, “I am Yahweh; there is no other God.
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What I proclaimed, I did not speak secretly; I did not hide what I was saying by speaking in a dark place. When I spoke to the descendants of Jacob, I did not tell them ‘It will be useless for you to seek for me!’ I, Yahweh, speak only what is true and what is right.
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You people who are still alive after experiencing great disasters, should come and gather together and listen to this: The people who carry around their wooden idols and pray to them are foolish, because those idols cannot rescue them!
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Talk among yourselves and decide what you will say to prove that you should pray to idols. And when you do that, I will ask you, ’Who predicted long ago what has now happened? Did any idol tell you that those things would happen?’ No, it was only I, Yahweh, who told you, because I am the only God; there is no other God. I am a God who acts righteously and saves people; there is no other one who does these things.
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Everyone in the world should ask me to save them, because I am the only God who can do that; there is no other one.
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I have solemnly declared, using my own name; I have spoken what is true, and I will never change what I have said: Some day, everyone will bow in front of me, and they will all solemnly promise to be loyal to me.
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They will declare, ‘Yahweh is the one who enables us to live righteously and to be strong.’” And all those who have been angry at Yahweh will come to him, and they will be ashamed that they were angry with him.
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Yahweh is the only one who will enable us Israelite people in all future times to defeat our enemies, and then we will boast about what he has done for us.
(2 Chronicles 36:22–23; Ezra 1:1–4)
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The LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armor, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
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I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.
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I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel.
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For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.
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I am the LORD, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen(a) you, though you have not known me,
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that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no one else.
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I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
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Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.
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Woe to him who strives with his Maker a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’?
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Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”
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The LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says:You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
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I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.
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I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says the LORD of Armies.
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The LORD says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you:Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.
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Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’”
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They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
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Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
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For the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says:I am the LORD. There is no other.
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I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
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Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
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Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, the LORD? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
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Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
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I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.
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They will say of me,There is righteousness and strength only in the LORD.’” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
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All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the LORD, and will rejoice!

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