Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

28 That saith to Cyrus, My shepherd, and all my pleasure shall he fulfil; 3 and saying to Jerusalem, She shall be built, and a temple shall be founded.

[*](20. ‘a feeder on ashes’: as pointed, ‘a shepherd of . . . ’ Some render, ‘he followeth after ashes . . . ’)[*](24. ‘who was with me?’ So Heb. text: margin, ‘by myself.’)[*](26. Or, ‘that saith of Jerusalem’: and so to the end of the chapter, and beginning of chap. xlv.)[*](28. ‘pleasure’: or, ‘will,’ ‘purpose.’)
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XLV. 1 Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, of whose right hand I have taken hold, to bring down nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings, to loose before his face two-leaved doors, and gates shall not be shut:

2 I will go before thee, and make swelling ground a I will break in pieces doors of brass, and cut in sunder bars of iron:

3 And I will give thee treasures of darkness, and hidden things of secret places, that thou mayest know that I am the Lord, which call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel's mine elect, therefore I have called thee by thy name: I have named thee honourably, and thou hast not known me.

5 I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God. beside me: I have girded thee, and thou hast not known me.

6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the setting thereof, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else,

7 That form light, and create darkness, that make peace, and create evil: I am the Lord, that do all these things