WEBVTT 00:00.860 --> 00:01.880 Chapter 45. 00:02.900 --> 00:08.300 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, 00:08.820 --> 00:10.660 to subdue nations before him. 00:11.220 --> 00:16.480 And I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates, 00:16.840 --> 00:18.640 and the gates shall not be shut. 00:19.300 --> 00:22.800 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight. 00:23.220 --> 00:28.300 I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron. 00:28.300 --> 00:33.240 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret 00:33.240 --> 00:39.300 places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, 00:39.740 --> 00:40.920 am the God of Israel. 00:41.600 --> 00:47.480 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy 00:47.480 --> 00:47.860 name. 00:48.180 --> 00:51.680 I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. 00:52.460 --> 00:55.360 I am the Lord, and there is none else. 00:55.780 --> 00:57.560 There is no God beside me. 00:57.560 --> 01:03.980 I girded thee, though thou hast not known me, that they may know from the rising of 01:03.980 --> 01:08.580 the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. 01:09.060 --> 01:11.960 I am the Lord, and there is none else. 01:12.420 --> 01:14.840 I form the light, and create darkness. 01:15.180 --> 01:17.360 I make peace, and create evil. 01:18.020 --> 01:20.360 I, the Lord, do all these things. 01:21.000 --> 01:25.360 Drop down ye heavens from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. 01:25.360 --> 01:30.780 Let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness 01:30.780 --> 01:31.900 spring up together. 01:32.700 --> 01:34.560 I, the Lord, have created it. 01:35.460 --> 01:37.740 Woe unto him that striveth with his maker! 01:38.240 --> 01:40.800 Let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth! 01:41.280 --> 01:45.340 Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? 01:45.980 --> 01:48.300 For thy work he hath no hands. 01:49.080 --> 01:53.300 Woe unto him that sayeth unto his father, What begettest thou? 01:53.300 --> 01:57.120 Or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth? 01:58.200 --> 02:04.520 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to 02:04.520 --> 02:08.240 come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands. 02:08.400 --> 02:09.400 Command ye me. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.980 I have made the earth, and created man upon it. 02:13.560 --> 02:18.760 I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their hosts have I 02:18.760 --> 02:19.160 commanded. 02:19.640 --> 02:23.780 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways. 02:24.140 --> 02:30.000 He shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, 02:30.540 --> 02:31.800 saith the Lord of hosts. 02:32.560 --> 02:38.840 Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia, and of the 02:38.840 --> 02:43.940 Sabians, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine. 02:44.480 --> 02:46.040 They shall come after thee. 02:46.540 --> 02:51.060 In chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee. 02:51.060 --> 02:55.780 They shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, 02:55.980 --> 02:57.200 and there is none else. 02:57.580 --> 02:58.760 There is no God. 02:59.560 --> 03:04.260 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour. 03:04.800 --> 03:08.220 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them. 03:08.840 --> 03:11.780 They shall go to confusion together, that are makers of idols. 03:12.380 --> 03:16.360 But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. 03:17.300 --> 03:20.960 He shall not be ashamed nor confounded, world without end. 03:21.680 --> 03:26.640 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth 03:26.640 --> 03:27.440 and made it. 03:27.900 --> 03:29.260 He hath established it. 03:29.620 --> 03:31.160 He created it not in vain. 03:31.700 --> 03:33.160 He formed it to be inhabited. 03:34.400 --> 03:37.280 I am the Lord, and there is none else. 03:37.740 --> 03:41.320 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. 03:41.780 --> 03:45.360 I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain. 03:46.400 --> 03:48.140 I, the Lord, speak righteousness. 03:48.140 --> 03:50.320 I declare things that are right. 03:51.240 --> 03:52.700 Assemble yourselves and come. 03:53.260 --> 03:56.320 Draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations. 03:56.880 --> 04:00.980 They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto 04:00.980 --> 04:02.260 a God that cannot save. 04:03.260 --> 04:05.000 Tell ye, and bring them near. 04:05.540 --> 04:07.640 Yea, let them take counsel together. 04:08.780 --> 04:10.880 Who hath declared this from ancient time? 04:11.080 --> 04:12.940 Who hath told it from that time? 04:13.400 --> 04:19.740 Have not I, the Lord, and there is no God else beside me, a just God and a Saviour? 04:20.180 --> 04:21.920 There is none beside me. 04:22.940 --> 04:26.960 Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth. 04:27.140 --> 04:30.080 For I am God, and there is none else. 04:30.780 --> 04:36.180 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, 04:36.800 --> 04:43.000 and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. 04:44.360 --> 04:48.440 Surely, shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength. 04:49.080 --> 04:54.200 Even to him shall men come, and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. 04:54.700 --> 04:58.700 In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory.