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926 Prophecy of Isaias

the cities of Juda: You shall be built, and I will opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice
raise up the wastes thereof. spring up together: I the Lord have created him.
27 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, 9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a
and I will dry up thy rivers. sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to
28 Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, him that fashioneth it: What art thou making,
and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who and thy work is without hands?
say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to 10 Woe to him that saith to his father: Why
the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid. begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost
thou bring forth?
11 Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel,
Chapter 45 his maker: Ask me of things to come, concern-
ing my children, and concerning the work of my
Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, hands give ye charge to me.
whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue
12 I made the earth: and I created man upon
nations before his face, and to turn the backs of it: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and I
kings, and to open the doors before him, and the have commanded all their host.
gates shall not be shut. 13 I have raised him up to justice, and I will
2 I will go before thee, and will humble the direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and let
great ones of the earth: I will break in pieces the go my captives, not for ransom, nor for presents,
gates of brass, and will burst the bars of iron. saith the Lord the God of hosts.
3 And I will give thee hidden treasures, and 14 Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt,
the concealed riches of secret places: that thou and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim,
mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee men of stature shall come over to thee, and shall
by thy name, the God of Israel. be thine: they shall walk after thee, they shall
4 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel go bound with manacles: and they shall worship
my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I thee, and shall make supplication to thee: only
have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast not in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee.
known me. 15 Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of
5 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there Israel the saviour.
is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou 16 They are all confounded and ashamed: the
hast not known me: forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.
6 That they may know who are from the rising 17 Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal
of the sun, and they who are from the west, that salvation: you shall not be confounded, and you
there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and shall not be ashamed for ever and ever.
there is none else: 18 For thus saith the Lord that created the
7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and
peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all made it, the very maker thereof: he did not cre-
these things. ate it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am
8 Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, the Lord, and there is no other.
and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place