Isaiah 45:5

I am Hashem, and there is none other, 1 there is no Elohim besides Me; 1 I equipped thee, though thou hast not known Me; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 avdi Ya'akov, 1 and Yisroel My Bachir, 1 I have even called thee by thy shem (name); 1 I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known Me. 1

6That they may know from the rising of the shemesh, 1 even to the ma'arav (west, setting place of the sun), 1 that there is none apart from Me. 1 I am Hashem, and there is no other. + 45:6 Elohim 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:39Know therefore today, and consider it in thine lev, that Hashem He is HaElohim in Shomayim above, and upon Ha'Aretz beneath: there is no other.

1 Kings 8:60That all the peoples of ha'aretz may know that Hashem hu HaElohim and that there is none else.

Job 12:18He looseth the shackle of melachim (kings), 1 and girdeth their loins with loincloth. 1

Psalms 18:32For who is Elohim besides Hashem? 1 Or who is Tzur but Eloheinu? 1

Psalms 18:39I have crushed them that they were not able to rise; 1 they are fallen under my raglayim. 1

Isaiah 22:21And I will clothe him with thy kesones, and strengthen him with thy avnet (sash) and I will commit thy memshelet (authority) into his yad; and he shall be an av to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, and to the Bais Yehudah.

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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