Isaiah 45:1-13 - Cyrus, God's Instrument

¹ So says Jehovah to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have made strong in order to humble nations before him. And I will loosen the loins of kings, to open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut. ² I will go before you, and make hills level. I will break in pieces the bronze gates, and cut the iron bars in two. ³ And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I am Jehovah, who calls you by your name, the God of Israel. ⁴ For Jacob My servant's sake, and Israel My elect, I have even entitled you. I have named you, though you have not known me. ⁵ I am Jehovah, and there is none else, no God besides Me; I clothed you, though you have not known Me; ⁶ that they may know from the rising of the sun, and to the sunset, that there is none besides Me. I am Jehovah, and there is none else; ⁷ forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things.

⁸ Drop down from above, O heavens, and let the clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, and let salvation bear fruit; and let righteousness spring up together. I Jehovah have created it.

⁹ Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or your work, He has no hands? ¹⁰ Woe to him who says to his father, What are you fathering? Or to the woman, What are you laboring over? ¹¹ So says Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and the One who formed him, Do you ask Me of things to come? Do you give command to Me about My sons, and about the work of My hands? ¹² I have made the earth, and created man on it; I with My hands have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded. ¹³ I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways; he shall build My city, and he shall let My captives go, not for price nor reward, says Jehovah of Hosts.