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¹ Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one,
    to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped
to subjugate nations before him,
    and I uncover^[a] the loins of kings
to open doors before him,
    and the gates shall not be shut:
² "I myself will go before you,
    and I will level the mountains.^[b]
I will break the doors of bronze
    and cut throughthe bars of iron.
³ And I will give you the treasures of darkness
    and treasures of secret places
so that you may know that I am Yahweh,
    the one who calls you by your name, the God of Israel,
⁴ for the sake of my servant Jacob,
    and Israel my chosen one.
And I call you by your name;
    I give you a name of honor, though^[c] you do not know me.
⁵ I am Yahweh, and there is none besides me;
    besides me there is no god.
        I gird you though^[d] you do not know me,
⁶ so that they may know from the rising of the sun
    and from the west that there is none besides me;
        I am Yahweh and there is none besides me.
⁷ I form light and I create darkness;
    I make peace and I create evil;
        I am Yahweh; I do all these things.
⁸ Trickle, O heavens, from above,
    and let clouds trickle with righteousness;
let the earth open so that^[e] salvation may be fruitful,
    and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it.^[f]
        I myself, Yahweh, have created it.
⁹ Woe to the one who strives with his maker,^[g]
    a potsherd among^[h] potsherds of earth!
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it,
    ‘What are you making?'
    and ‘Your work has no hands'?
¹⁰ Woe to the one who says to a father, ‘What you are begetting?'
    or^[i] to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?'"
¹¹ Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel,
    and its maker:^[j]
"Ask me of the things to come about^[k] my children,
    and you command me about the work of my hands.
¹² I myself made the earth,
    and I created humankind upon it.
I, my hands, stretched out the heavens,
    and I commanded all their host.
¹³ I myself have stirred him up in righteousness,
    and I will make all his paths smooth.
He himself shall build my city,
    and he shall set my exiles free,

¹⁴ Thus says Yahweh:
    "The acquisition of Egypt
and the merchandise of Cush
    and the Sabeans, tall men,
shall pass over to you;
    they shall be yours,
and they shall walk behind you.
    They shall pass over in chains,
and they shall bow down to you;
    they will pray to you:
‘Surely God is with you, and there is no other.
    Besides him there is no God.'"
¹⁵ Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden,
    God of Israel, the savior.
¹⁶ All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated;
    the craftsmen of idols go together in insult.
¹⁷ Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation;
    you shall not be ashamed,
    and you shall not be humiliated to all eternity.^[l]
18 For thus says Yahweh, who created^[m] the heavens,
    he is God, who formed^[n] the earth
and who made^[o] it.
    He himself established it;
he did not create it as emptiness—
    he formed it for inhabiting.

¹⁹ I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness,
    I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain!'^[p]
I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness,
    declaring uprightness.
²⁰ Assemble and come;
    draw near together, survivors of the nations!
    They do not know, those who carry their wooden idols^[q]
    and pray to a god who cannot save.
²¹ Declare and present your case,
    also let them consult together!
Who made this known^[r] from former times,^[s]
    declared it from of old?^[t]
Was it not I, Yahweh?
    And there is no other god besides me,
a righteous God besides me,
    and no savior besides me.
²² Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth,
    for I am God and there is none besides me.
²³ I have sworn by myself;
    a word that^[u] shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness:
‘Every knee shall kneel down to me;
    every tongue shall swear.'
²⁴ ‘Only in Yahweh,' one shall say to me, ‘are righteousness and strength.'
    He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed.
²⁵ In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right,
    and they shall boast."