Isaiah 45:5

I am the LORD, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me,

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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 Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.

6that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no one else.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:39Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that the LORD himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

1 Kings 8:60that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD himself is God. There is no one else.

Job 12:18He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

Psalms 18:32the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Psalms 18:39For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Isaiah 22:21and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be 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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