Isaiah 45

¹Thus sayeth the Lord vnto Cyrus his anointed, whose right hand I haue holden to subdue nations before him: therefore will I weaken the loynes of Kings and open the doores before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

²I will goe before thee and make the crooked streight: I will breake the brasen doores, and burst the yron barres.

³And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, and the things hid in secret places, that thou maist know that I am the Lord which call thee by thy name, euen the God of Israel.

⁴For Iaakob my seruants sake, and Israel mine elect, I will euen call thee by thy name and name thee, though thou hast not knowen me.

⁵I am the Lord and there is none other: there is no God besides me: I girded thee though thou hast not knowen me,

⁶That they may knowe from the rising of the sunne and from the West, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none other.

⁷I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lord doe all these things.

⁸Ye heauens, send the dewe from aboue, and let the cloudes droppe downe righteousnesse: let the earth open, and let saluation and iustice growe foorth: let it bring them foorth together: I the Lord haue created him.

⁹Woe be vnto him that striueth with his maker, the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth: shall the clay say to him that facioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, It hath none hands?

¹⁰Woe vnto him that sayeth to his father, What hast thou begotten? or to his mother, What hast thou brought foorth?