⁷ How can ^[a]it be quiet,
Seeing the Lord has ^(A)given it a charge
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore?
There He has ^(B)appointed it.”

⁹ The Lord’s voice cries to the city—
Wisdom shall see Your name:

⁶ I will send him against ^(A)an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will ^(B)give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

⁶ If a ^[a]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
^(A)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?

^10 (A)Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, ^(B)‘My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,’
¹¹ Calling a bird of prey ^(C)from the east,
The man ^(D)who executes My counsel, from a far country.
Indeed ^(E)I have spoken it;
I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it;
I will also do it.

45 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To ^(A)Cyrus, whose ^(B)right hand I have ^[a]held—
^(C)To subdue nations before him
And ^(D)loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
² ‘I will go before you
^(E)And^[b] make the ^[c]crooked places straight;
^(F)I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
³ I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
^(G)That you may know that I, the Lord,
Who ^(H)call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.