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Isaiah 45:5-12 (Listen)

• Isaiah 44
• Isaiah 45
• Isaiah 46

5 xI am the Lord, and there is no other,

besides me there is no God;

yI equip you, though you do not know me,

6 zthat people may know, from the rising of the sun

and from the west, that there is none besides me;

I am the Lord, and there is no other.

7 I form light and create darkness,

I make well-being and acreate calamity,

I am the Lord, who does all these things.

8 b“Shower, O heavens, from above,

and clet the clouds rain down righteousness;

let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;

let the earth cause them both to sprout;

I the Lord have created it.

9 d“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him,

a pot among earthen pots!

eDoes the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’

or ‘Your work has no handles’?

10 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’

or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”

11 Thus says fthe Lord,

the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him:

g“Ask me of things to come;

will you command me hconcerning my children and ithe work of my hands?1

12 jI made the earth

and created man on it;

it was my hands kthat stretched out the heavens,

and lI commanded all their host.

Isaiah 45:18-19 (Listen)

• Isaiah 44
• Isaiah 45
• Isaiah 46

18 vFor thus says the Lord,

who created the heavens

(he is God!),

who formed the earth and made it

(he established it;

he wdid not create it empty,

xhe formed it to be inhabited!):

“I am the Lord, and there is no other.

19 yI did not speak in secret,

in a land of darkness;

I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,

z‘Seek me in vain.’1

I the Lord speak athe truth;

I declare what is right.

Isaiah 45:22-25 (Listen)

• Isaiah 44
• Isaiah 45
• Isaiah 46

22 “Turn to me and be saved,

hall the ends of the earth!

For I am God, and there is no other.

23 iBy myself I have sworn;

from my mouth has gone out in jrighteousness

a word that shall not return:

k‘To me every knee shall bow,

every tongue shall swear allegiance.’1

24 l“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,

are righteousness and mstrength;

to him shall come and be ashamed

nall who were incensed against him.

25 In the Lord all the offspring of Israel

shall be justified and shall glory.”