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28 It is I who says of (A)Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd!
And all My good pleasure he will complete.’
And saying of Jerusalem, ‘(B)She will be built,’
And of the temple, ‘[a]Your foundation will be laid.’”

Cyrus, Yahweh’s Anointed

45 Thus says Yahweh to (C)Cyrus His anointed,
Whom I have taken hold of by his right (D)hand,
To (E)subdue nations before him
And [b]to (F)loose the loins of kings,
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 44:28 Lit You will be founded
  2. Isaiah 45:1 Lit I will open, cf. 45:1b

behold, I will (A)send and take all the families of the north,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [a]devote them to destruction and (C)make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting waste place.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 25:9 Or put them under the ban

So now, I (A)have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, (B)My servant, and I have given him even the (C)wild beasts of the field to serve him.

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