Isaiah 45:3

I will give you treasures that people have hidden in dark secret places [DOU]. I will do that in order that you will know that I am Yahweh, the God to whom the Israelis belong, the God who calls you by your name.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2This is what Yahweh says to him: “Cyrus, I will go ahead of you and level the mountains. I will smash down bronze gates and cut through iron bars.

4I have summoned you, calling out your name, for the sake of the people of Israel [DOU] whom I have chosen, who serve me. Even though you do not know me, I will give you a title which has great honor.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:12Moses/I said to Yahweh, “It is true that you have told me, ‘Lead the people to the land that I will show you,’ and you have said that you know me well and that you are pleased with me, but you have not told me whom you will send with me!

2 Chronicles 6:17So now, God of us Israeli people, cause what you promised David, who served you well, to happen.

Isaiah 41:23Yes, those idols should tell us what will happen in the future. If they do that, we will know that they are really gods. Tell them to do something—either something good or something bad! Tell them to do something that will cause us to be amazed and afraid!

Isaiah 48:15I have said it; I have summoned Cyrus. I have appointed him, and he will accomplish everything that he attempts to do.

Jeremiah 27:5‘With my very great power [MTY, DOU] I created the earth and the people and the animals that are on the earth. And I can give my power to anyone whom I want to.

Jeremiah 50:37They will strike their horses and chariots and the foreigners who are in the army of Babylonia, and they will all become as weak as [MET] women. They will seize [MTY] all the valuable things there in Babylon and take them away.

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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