Isaiah 45
1 thus to say LORD to/for anointed his to/for Cyrus which to strengthen: hold in/on/with right his to/for to subdue to/for face: before his nation and loin king to open to/for to open to/for face: before his door and gate not to shut
This is what the Lord says to Cyrus, the one he has anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to direct him to defeat nations and to make kings weak, to open doors before him and gates that will not be shut.
2 I to/for face: before your to go: went and to honor (to smooth *Qk) door bronze to break and bar iron to cut down/off
I will go ahead of you and level the mountains. I will break down bronze gates and cut through iron bars.
3 and to give: give to/for you treasure darkness and treasure hiding because to know for I LORD [the] to call: call to in/on/with name your God Israel
I will give you hidden treasure, treasure concealed in secret places, so that you can know for sure that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name.
4 because servant/slave my Jacob and Israel chosen my and to call: call to to/for you in/on/with name your to flatter you and not to know me
I call you by name and I have given you a title of honor, for the sake of Jacob my servant, and Israel the one I chose, even though you don't know me.
5 I LORD and nothing still exception me nothing God to gird you and not to know me
I am the Lord, there is no God apart from me. Apart from me there is no God. I will make you strong, even though you don't know me,
6 because to know from east sun and from west her for end beside me I LORD and nothing still
so that everyone, from the east to the west, will know that there is no God apart from me, that I am the Lord, and there is none apart from me.
7 to form: formed light and to create darkness to make peace: well-being and to create bad: evil I LORD to make: do all these
I create light, and I make darkness, I bring peace and I bring about disaster. I am the Lord and I do all this.
8 to drip heaven from above and cloud to flow righteousness to open land: country/planet and be fruitful salvation and righteousness to spring unitedness I LORD to create him
Let the rain fall from the sky above, let goodness fall from the clouds, let the earth open up to receive goodness and salvation so they can grow together. I, the Lord, created them.
9 woe! to contend with to form: formed him earthenware with earthenware land: soil to say clay to/for to form: formed him what? to make and work your nothing hand to/for him
What trouble people face when they fight with their Creator—they're just pots among all the other pots on earth! Does the clay tell the potter who is shaping it, “What are you doing?” or “What you're making is so bad it's like you have no hands!”
10 woe! to say to/for father what? to beget and to/for woman what? to twist: writh in pain [emph?]
How bad it would be if you said to your father, “Why did you have me?” or to your mother, “Why was I ever born?”!
11 thus to say LORD holy Israel and to form: formed him [the] to come to ask me upon son: child my and upon work hand my to command me
This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, your Creator: You can ask me about things to come. But are you going to lecture me about my children and what I do?
12 I to make land: country/planet and man upon her to create I hand my to stretch heaven and all army their to command
I'm the one who made the earth, and I created human beings to live there. It was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordered all the stars to come into being.
13 I to rouse him in/on/with righteousness and all way: conduct his to smooth he/she/it to build city my and captivity my to send: let go not in/on/with price and not in/on/with bribe to say LORD Hosts
Because I do what's right, I will encourage him and smooth out all the roads he takes. He will rebuild my city and will set my exiles free without being paid or bribed to do so, says the Lord Almighty.
14 thus to say LORD toil Egypt and profit Cush and Sabeans human measure upon you to pass and to/for you to be after you to go: follow in/on/with fetter to pass and to(wards) you to bow to(wards) you to pray surely in/on/with you God and nothing still end God
This is what the Lord says: “The productive Egyptians and the Ethiopian traders, as well as the tall Sabean people, will come over to you and will belong to you. They will walk behind you in chains and bow down to you, pleading with you, saying, ‘God is certainly with you, and there is no other God besides him.’”
15 surely you(m. s.) God to hide God Israel to save
Yet you are a God who hides himself, God of Israel, Savior.
16 be ashamed and also be humiliated all their together to go: went in/on/with shame artificer image
Everyone who makes idols are ashamed and humiliated, all of them are disgraced.
17 Israel to save in/on/with LORD deliverance: salvation forever: enduring not be ashamed and not be humiliated till forever: enduring perpetuity
But Israel will be saved by the Lord with a salvation that lasts forever. You will never be ashamed or disgraced for all eternity.
18 for thus to say LORD to create [the] heaven he/she/it [the] God to form: formed [the] land: country/planet and to make her he/she/it to establish: make her not formlessness to create her to/for to dwell to form: formed her I LORD and nothing still
For this is what the Lord says, the God who created the heavens, who formed and made the earth, he founded it. He didn't make it to be left empty, but formed it to be inhabited. He is the one who says, I am the Lord, and there is no God apart from me.
19 not in/on/with secrecy to speak: speak in/on/with place land: country/planet darkness not to say to/for seed: children Jacob formlessness to seek me I LORD to speak: speak righteousness to tell uprightness
I haven't been talking in secret in an obscure place. I didn't tell the descendants of Jacob: Look for me in a place where no one can be found. I, the Lord, tell the truth—I say what's right.
20 to gather and to come (in): come to approach: approach together survivor [the] nation not to know [the] to lift: bear [obj] tree: wood idol their and to pray to(wards) god not to save
Gather yourselves together, and come, come close, you refugees of the nations. Aren't they stupid, these people who carry around their wooden idols, and who pray to a god that can't save them?
21 to tell and to approach: bring also to advise together who? to hear: proclaim this from front: old from the past to tell her not I LORD and nothing still God from beside me God righteous and to save nothing exception me
Discuss this together, and then speak up, present your case. Who predicted this long ago? Who said what would happen in the future back in the past? Wasn't that me, the Lord? There is no other God except me, no other God who does what is right, and who saves. There is no God apart from me.
22 to turn to(wards) me and to save all end land: country/planet for I God and nothing still
Everyone on earth, come to me and be saved, for I am God and there is no God apart from me.
23 in/on/with me to swear to come out: come from lip my righteousness word and not to return: return for to/for me to bow all knee to swear all tongue
I have sworn by my own self, I have spoken what is right, and I won't ever go back on it. Everyone shall bow before me; everyone shall acknowledge me.
24 surely in/on/with LORD to/for me to say righteousness and strength till him to come (in): come and be ashamed all [the] to be incensed in/on/with him
They will say about me, “Salvation and strength can only be found in the Lord.” Everyone who has fought against him will come to him and will be ashamed.
25 in/on/with LORD to justify and to boast: boast all seed: children Israel
But in the Lord all the descendants of Israel will be made right, and they will glory in him.
