Isaiah 45
‘I hold your right hand.
I give you power over other
to take away the
I will open the gates of cities in front of you,
and they will stay open.
and I will make the mountains flat.
I will break
and I will cut through iron
and I will give them to you.
Then you will know that I am the Lord, Israel's God.
I am the one who calls you by your name.
to help my servant, Jacob's
They are Israel's people, that I have chosen for myself.
You do not know me as your God,
but I have given to you an important name.
There is no other God, except me.
You do not know me as your God,
but I will make you strong to fight
people will know that there is no other God.
Yes, I am the Lord
and there is nobody else like me.
I make
I am the Lord.
I do all these things.
Let the earth be ready to receive it!
Then
like strong plants.
I am the
and I will cause it to happen.’
‘You should not ask me questions about my children.
You should not tell me what to do
with the people that I have made
I created the people who live on it.
I hung up the sky like a curtain.
I did that with my own hands!
I put all the stars in their places.
to do for me things that are right.
I will make all his paths easy to travel on.
He will build again my city,
and he will make my people free to return home.
Nobody will have to pay him any money
or give him a
That is what the Lord Almighty says.
‘I promise you that you will rule Egypt and Ethiopia,
and also those tall people from Seba.
They will bring to you the things that they buy and sell.
Those valuable things will belong to you.
They will walk behind you in
as your slaves.
They will bend down low in front of you,
and they will even pray to you.
They will agree, “Surely God is with you.
There is nobody else like him. There is no other God.” ’
You are Israel's God, our
People will
Israel will be safe and free for ever.
You will never be ashamed again.
People will never insult you again.
‘I am the Lord.
There is nobody else who is like me.
as I hid in a dark place.
I did not say to Jacob's
“Look for me, but you will not find me.”
I am the Lord. I speak what is right.
My message is true.
you who have
Bring yourselves in front of me together!
People who carry wooden
They pray to gods who cannot
Tell me what you think!
Who said a long time ago what would happen?
Who spoke about it long before it happened?
It was I, the Lord!
There is nobody else like me.
There is no other God, except me.
I am a
There is no other God.
I say that to everybody all over the world.
Turn to me, because I am God.
There is nobody else like me.
I have spoken it honestly and I will not change it.
I promise this:
Everybody will go down on their knees in front of me.
Everybody will promise to
“The Lord alone is true and strong.” ’
Everybody who has been angry with God will come to him.
They will be ashamed that they were angry.
for all the descendants of Israel.
They will say that the