Isaiah 45:5

For I am the Lord God, and there is no other God beside me; I strengthened thee, and thou hast not known me.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 mine elect, I will call thee by thy name, and accept thee: but thou hast not known me.

6That they that come from the east and they that come from the west may know that there is no God but me. I am the Lord God, and there is none beside.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:39And thou shalt know this day, and shalt consider in thy heart, that the Lord thy God he is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he.

1 Kings 8:60That all the nations of the earth may know that the Lord God, he is God, and there is none beside.

Job 12:18He seats kings upon thrones, 1 And girds their loins with a girdle. 1

Isaiah 22:21and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in 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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