Isaiah 45 (NET)

Isaiah 45:1¹“This is what the Lord says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:20-24Isa 42:6Isa 44:28Ps 73:23Isa 41:13Ezra 1:1Isa 45:5Jer 50:35Jer 51:11Dan 5:6

Isaiah 45:2²‘I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:4Isa 42:16Luke 3:5Ps 107:16Jer 51:30Isa 13:4-17Acts 1:15

Isaiah 45:3³I will give you hidden treasures, riches stashed away in secret places, so you may recognize that I am the Lord, the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 48:15Isa 43:1Exod 33:17Exod 33:12Ezra 1:2Jer 50:37Jer 51:53Isa 49:1Ezek 29:19-20Jer 27:5-7

Isaiah 45:4⁴For the sake of my servant Jacob, Israel, my chosen one, I call you by name and give you a title of respect, even though you do not submit to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:8-9Acts 17:23Exod 19:5-6Isa 44:1Rom 11:7Gal 4:8-9Isa 43:14Isa 44:28-45:1Jer 50:17-20Mark 13:20

Isaiah 45:5⁵I am the Lord, I have no peer, there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 44:6Isa 44:8Isa 46:9Joel 2:271 Kgs 8:60Isa 45:21-22Deut 32:39Deut 4:35Isa 45:14-18Deut 4:39

Isaiah 45:6⁶I do this so people will recognize from east to west that there is no God but me; I am the Lord, I have no peer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:5Mal 1:11Isa 37:20Ps 46:10Ezek 38:23Ps 83:181 Sam 17:46-47Ps 102:15-16Ezek 39:21

Isaiah 45:7⁷I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord, who accomplishes all these things.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 7:13-14Amos 3:6Ps 75:7Job 2:10Isa 31:2Amos 4:13Jer 13:16Jer 31:35Jer 51:20Nah 1:8

Isaiah 45:8⁸O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the Lord, create it.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:12Isa 61:11Ps 72:61 Cor 3:6-9Isa 44:3Titus 3:3-6Joel 3:18Isa 11:1Isa 32:15Isa 4:2

Isaiah 45:9⁹One who argues with his Creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, “What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 64:8Rom 9:20-21Isa 10:15Isa 29:16Jer 18:6Prov 21:30Job 40:8-9Ps 2:2-91 Cor 10:22Exod 9:16-17

Isaiah 45:10¹⁰Danger awaits one who says to his father, “What in the world are you fathering?” and to his mother, “What in the world are you bringing forth?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 27:16Heb 12:9Mal 1:6

Isaiah 45:11¹¹This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come: “How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 33:3Ezek 36:37Isa 48:17Mark 11:24Eph 2:10Isa 29:23Hos 1:10Isa 43:21Isa 60:21Josh 10:12

Isaiah 45:12¹²I made the earth; I created the people who live on it. It was me—my hands stretched out the sky. I give orders to all the heavenly lights.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 42:5Isa 44:24Jer 27:5Gen 2:1Neh 9:6Isa 45:18Jer 32:17Heb 11:3Isa 40:28Zech 12:1

Isaiah 45:13¹³It is me—I stir him up and commission him; I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:22 Chr 36:22-23Isa 13:17Isa 41:25Isa 49:25Isa 42:6Isa 46:111 Pet 1:18-19Ezra 1:3Isa 44:28-45:6

Isaiah 45:14¹⁴This is what the Lord says: “The profit of Egypt and the revenue of Ethiopia, along with the Sabeans, those tall men, will be brought to you and become yours. They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. They will bow down to you and pray to you: ‘Truly God is with you; he has no peer; there is no other God!’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 49:231 Cor 14:25Jer 16:19Acts 10:25-26Isa 61:5-6Zech 8:20-23Exod 11:8Ezek 23:42Isa 10:33Isa 18:7

Isaiah 45:15¹⁵Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden, O God of Israel, deliverer!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 8:17Ps 44:24Isa 57:17Isa 46:13Ps 77:19Rom 11:33-34Isa 45:17John 4:22

Isaiah 45:16¹⁶They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 42:17Isa 44:11Isa 44:9Isa 41:19Isa 45:20Jer 10:14-15Jer 2:26-27Ps 97:7

Isaiah 45:17¹⁷Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:11Ps 25:3Isa 54:41 Pet 2:6Joel 2:26-27Isa 49:23Rom 9:33Isa 26:4Ps 103:17Jer 31:3

Isaiah 45:18¹⁸For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky— he is the true God, the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, he formed it to be inhabited: “I am the Lord, I have no peer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 115:16Jer 10:12Isa 42:5Isa 45:12Gen 1:2Ezek 36:10-12Gen 1:26Gen 1:28Gen 9:1Isa 45:5-6

Isaiah 45:19¹⁹I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants, ‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the Lord, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 48:16Amos 5:4Num 23:19-20Jer 29:13-14Prov 30:5John 18:20Ps 9:10Jas 4:3Mal 3:13-14Prov 15:8

Isaiah 45:20²⁰Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations. Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:9Isa 44:17-20Jer 10:5Isa 4:2Isa 46:1Ps 115:81 Kgs 18:26-29Eph 2:12Eph 2:16Hab 2:18-20

Isaiah 45:21²¹Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another. Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the Lord? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:5Isa 43:11Isa 43:9Isa 44:7-8Isa 46:9-10Titus 2:13-14Isa 43:3Isa 45:14Isa 45:18Isa 45:25

Isaiah 45:22²²Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 6:40Mic 7:7Heb 12:2Num 21:8-9Zech 12:10John 3:13-162 Chr 20:12Isa 45:21Isa 49:6John 10:28-30

Isaiah 45:23²³I solemnly make this oath — what I say is true and reliable: ‘Surely every knee will bow to me, every tongue will solemnly affirm;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 2:10Rom 14:10-12Isa 55:11Heb 6:13-18Deut 6:13Isa 45:19Isa 65:16Ps 63:11Isa 44:3-5Ps 132:2

Isaiah 45:24²⁴they will say about me, “Yes, the Lord is a powerful deliverer.”’” All who are angry at him will cower before him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:11Isa 54:17Phil 4:132 Tim 4:17-18Eph 6:10John 12:321 Cor 1:302 Cor 12:9-102 Cor 5:212 Pet 1:1

Isaiah 45:25²⁵All the descendants of Israel will be vindicated by the Lord and will boast in him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 41:161 Cor 6:11Gal 3:27-291 Chr 16:131 Cor 1:31Acts 13:39Isa 45:17Isa 45:19Isa 45:24Isa 61:9