Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, and there is none else, beside me there is no god; I assisted thee, though thou hast not known me.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

In Context

4For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect; and I have called thee by thy name: I have designated thee, though thou hast not known me.

6In order that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from its setting, that there is nothing without me. I am the Lord, and there is no one else;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:39Know therefore this day, and reflect in thy heart, that the Eternal is the God in the heavens above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

1 Kings 8:60In order that all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord is the [true] God, and none else.

Job 12:18He looseth the bond of kings, and bindeth a girdle around their loins.

Psalms 18:32(18:33) He is the God that girdeth me with strength, and rendereth my way unobstructed.

Psalms 18:39(18:40) For thou hast girded me with strength for the war: thou subduest my opponents under me.

Isaiah 22:21And I will clothe him with thy robe, and thy girdle will I fasten around him, and thy government will I place into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 45:2-5

Prophecies Concerning Cyrus. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that… Read the whole commentary →

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