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Isaiah 45:13-17
The Message
Isaiah 45:13-17
The Message
11-13 Thus God, The Holy of Israel, Israel’s Maker, says:
“Do you question who or what I’m making?
Are you telling me what I can or cannot do?
I made earth,
and I created man and woman to live on it.
I handcrafted the skies
and direct all the constellations in their turnings.
And now I’ve got Cyrus on the move.
I’ve rolled out the red carpet before him.
He will build my city.
He will bring home my exiles.
I didn’t hire him to do this. I told him.
I, God-of-the-Angel-Armies.”
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14 God says:
“The workers of Egypt, the merchants of Ethiopia,
and those statuesque Sabeans
Will all come over to you—all yours.
Docile in chains, they’ll follow you,
Hands folded in reverence, praying before you:
‘Amazing! God is with you!
There is no other God—none.’”
Look at the Evidence
15-17 Clearly, you are a God who works behind the scenes,
God of Israel, Savior God.
Humiliated, all those others
will be ashamed to show their faces in public.
Out of work and at loose ends, the makers of no-god idols
won’t know what to do with themselves.
The people of Israel, though, are saved by you, God,
saved with an eternal salvation.
They won’t be ashamed,
they won’t be at loose ends, ever.
Isaiah 45:13-15
New International Version
Isaiah 45:13-15
New International Version
13 I will raise up Cyrus[a](A) in my righteousness:
I will make all his ways straight.(B)
He will rebuild my city(C)
and set my exiles free,
but not for a price or reward,(D)
says the Lord Almighty.”
14 This is what the Lord says:
“The products(E) of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,[b]
and those tall Sabeans(F)—
they will come over to you(G)
and will be yours;
they will trudge behind you,(H)
coming over to you in chains.(I)
They will bow down before you
and plead(J) with you, saying,
‘Surely God is with you,(K) and there is no other;
there is no other god.(L)’”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:13 Hebrew him
- Isaiah 45:14 That is, the upper Nile region
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