Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NLT

NLT

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Isaiah 45 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles
Cyrus, the LORD’s Chosen One

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 - This is what the LORD says to Cyrus, his anointed one,
whose right hand he will empower.
Before him, mighty kings will be paralyzed with fear.
Their fortress gates will be opened,
never to shut again.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:2 - This is what the LORD says:
“I will go before you, Cyrus,
and level the mountains.[fn]
I will smash down gates of bronze
and cut through bars of iron.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:3 - And I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness—
secret riches.
I will do this so you may know that I am the LORD,
the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:4 - “And why have I called you for this work?
Why did I call you by name when you did not know me?
It is for the sake of Jacob my servant,
Israel my chosen one.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:5 - I am the LORD;
there is no other God.
I have equipped you for battle,
though you don’t even know me,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:6 - so all the world from east to west
will know there is no other God.
I am the LORD, and there is no other.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7 - I create the light and make the darkness.
I send good times and bad times.
I, the LORD, am the one who does these things.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:8 - “Open up, O heavens,
and pour out your righteousness.
Let the earth open wide
so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together.
I, the LORD, created them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:9 - “What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator.
Does a clay pot argue with its maker?
Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying,
‘Stop, you’re doing it wrong!’
Does the pot exclaim,
‘How clumsy can you be?’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:10 - How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father,
‘Why was I born?’
or if it said to its mother,
‘Why did you make me this way?’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:11 - This is what the LORD says—
the Holy One of Israel and your Creator:
“Do you question what I do for my children?
Do you give me orders about the work of my hands?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12 - I am the one who made the earth
and created people to live on it.
With my hands I stretched out the heavens.
All the stars are at my command.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 - I will raise up Cyrus to fulfill my righteous purpose,
and I will guide his actions.
He will restore my city and free my captive people—
without seeking a reward!
I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
Future Conversion of Gentiles

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:14 - This is what the LORD says:
“You will rule the Egyptians,
the Ethiopians,[fn] and the Sabeans.
They will come to you with all their merchandise,
and it will all be yours.
They will follow you as prisoners in chains.
They will fall to their knees in front of you and say,
‘God is with you, and he is the only God.
There is no other.’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:15 - Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior,
you work in mysterious ways.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:16 - All craftsmen who make idols will be humiliated.
They will all be disgraced together.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:17 - But the LORD will save the people of Israel
with eternal salvation.
Throughout everlasting ages,
they will never again be humiliated and disgraced.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - For the LORD is God,
and he created the heavens and earth
and put everything in place.
He made the world to be lived in,
not to be a place of empty chaos.
“I am the LORD,” he says,
“and there is no other.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:19 - I publicly proclaim bold promises.
I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner.
I would not have told the people of Israel[fn] to seek me
if I could not be found.
I, the LORD, speak only what is true
and declare only what is right.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20 - “Gather together and come,
you fugitives from surrounding nations.
What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols
and pray to gods that cannot save!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:21 - Consult together, argue your case.
Get together and decide what to say.
Who made these things known so long ago?
What idol ever told you they would happen?
Was it not I, the LORD?
For there is no other God but me,
a righteous God and Savior.
There is none but me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:22 - Let all the world look to me for salvation!
For I am God; there is no other.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:23 - I have sworn by my own name;
I have spoken the truth,
and I will never go back on my word:
Every knee will bend to me,
and every tongue will confess allegiance to me.[fn]”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:24 - The people will declare,
“The LORD is the source of all my righteousness and strength.”
And all who were angry with him
will come to him and be ashamed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:25 - In the LORD all the generations of Israel will be justified,
and in him they will boast.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
As in Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek version; Masoretic Text reads the swellings.
Hebrew Cushites.
Hebrew of Jacob. See note on 14:1.
Hebrew will confess; Greek version reads will confess and give praise to God. Compare Rom 14:11.
NLT

Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Full copyright information is provided here. Visit the New Living Translation website.

For more information on this translation, see the NLT Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NLT
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NLT
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Isaiah Chapter 45 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras