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Isaiah 45
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The God Who Forms Light and Darkness

45GOD's Message to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom he took by the hand To give the task of taming the nations, of terrifying their kings— He gave him free rein, no restrictions:H559H3068H4899H3566H3225H2388H7286H1471H6440H6605H4975H4428H6605H6440H1817H8179H5462 2"I'll go ahead of you, clearing and paving the road. I'll break down bronze city gates, smash padlocks, kick down barred entrances.H3212H6440H3474H1921H3474H3474H7665H1817H5154H1438H1280H1270 3I'll lead you to buried treasures, secret caches of valuables— Confirmations that it is, in fact, I, GOD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.H5414H214H2822H4301H4565H3045H3068H7121H8034H430H3478 4It's because of my dear servant Jacob, Israel my chosen, That I've singled you out, called you by name, and given you this privileged work. And you don't even know me!H3290H5650H3478H972H7121H8034H3655H3045 5I am GOD, the only God there is. Besides me there are no real gods. I'm the one who armed you for this work, though you don't even know me,H3068H430H2108H247H3045 6So that everyone, from east to west, will know that I have no god-rivals. I am GOD, the only God there is.H3045H4217H8121H4628H657H1107H3068 7I form light and create darkness, I make harmonies and create discords. I, GOD, do all these things.H3335H216H1254H2822H6213H7965H1254H7451H3068H6213 8"Open up, heavens, and rain. Clouds, pour out buckets of my goodness! Loosen up, earth, and bloom salvation; sprout right living. I, GOD, generate all this.H7491H8064H4605H7834H5140H6664H776H6605H6509H3468H6666H6779H3162H3068H1254 9But doom to you who fight your Maker— you're a pot at odds with the potter! Does clay talk back to the potter: 'What are you doing? What clumsy fingers!'H1945H7378H3335H2789H2789H127H2563H559H3335H6213H6467H3027 10Would a sperm say to a father, 'Who gave you permission to use me to make a baby?' Or a fetus to a mother, 'Why have you cooped me up in this belly?'"H1945H559H1H3205H802H2342 11Thus GOD, The Holy of Israel, Israel's Maker, says: "Do you question who or what I'm making? Are you telling me what I can or cannot do?H559H3068H6918H3478H3335H7592H857H1121H6467H3027H6680 12I made earth, and I created man and woman to live on it. I handcrafted the skies and direct all the constellations in their turnings.H6213H776H1254H120H3027H5186H8064H6635H6680 13And now I've got Cyrus on the move. I've rolled out the red carpet before him. He will build my city. He will bring home my exiles. I didn't hire him to do this. I told him. I, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies."H5782H6664H3474H1870H1129H5892H7971H1546H4242H7810H559H3068H6635 14GOD says: "The workers of Egypt, the merchants of Ethiopia, and those statuesque Sabeans Will all come over to you—all yours. Docile in chains, they'll follow you, Hands folded in reverence, praying before you: 'Amazing! God is with you! There is no other God—none.'"H559H3068H3018H4714H5505H3568H5436H582H4060H5674H3212H310H2131H5674H7812H6419H410H657H430

Look at the Evidence

15Clearly, you are a God who works behind the scenes, God of Israel, Savior God.H403H410H5641H430H3478H3467 16Humiliated, all those others will be ashamed to show their faces in public. Out of work and at loose ends, the makers of no-god idols won't know what to do with themselves.H954H3637H1980H3639H3162H2796H6736 17The people of Israel, though, are saved by you, GOD, saved with an eternal salvation. They won't be ashamed, they won't be at loose ends, ever.H3478H3467H3068H5769H8668H954H3637H5769H5703 18GOD, Creator of the heavens— he is, remember, God. Maker of earth— he put it on its foundations, built it from scratch. He didn't go to all that trouble to just leave it empty, nothing in it. He made it to be lived in. This GOD says: "I am GOD, the one and only.H559H3068H1254H8064H430H3335H776H6213H3559H1254H8414H3335H3427H3068 19I don't just talk to myself or mumble under my breath. I never told Jacob, 'Seek me in emptiness, in dark nothingness.' I am GOD. I work out in the open, saying what's right, setting things right.H1696H5643H2822H4725H776H559H2233H3290H1245H8414H3068H1696H6664H5046H4339 20So gather around, come on in, all you refugees and castoffs. They don't seem to know much, do they— those who carry around their no-god blocks of wood, praying for help to a dead stick?H6908H935H5066H3162H6412H1471H3045H5375H6086H6459H6419H410H3467 21So tell me what you think. Look at the evidence. Put your heads together. Make your case. Who told you, and a long time ago, what's going on here? Who made sense of things for you? Wasn't I the one? GOD? It had to be me. I'm the only God there is— The only God who does things right and knows how to help.H5046H5066H3289H3162H8085H6924H5046H3068H430H1107H6662H410H3467H369H2108 22So turn to me and be helped—saved!— everyone, whoever and wherever you are. I am GOD, the only God there is, the one and only.H6437H3467H657H776H410 23I promise in my own name: Every word out of my mouth does what it says. I never take back what I say. Everyone is going to end up kneeling before me. Everyone is going to end up saying of me,H7650H1697H3318H6310H6666H7725H1290H3766H3956H7650 24'Yes! Salvation and strength are in GOD!'" All who have raged against him will be brought before him, disgraced by their unbelief.H559H3068H6666H5797H935H2734H954 25And all who are connected with Israel will have a robust, praising, good life in GOD!H3068H2233H3478H6663H1984


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