1   Thvs sayth the Lord to my ^note christ Cyrus, whose right hand I haue taken, to subdew the Gentiles before his face, and to turne the backes of kinges, & to open the doores before him, and the gates shal not be shut.

2   I wil goe before thee, and wil humble the glorious of the earth: I wil breake the brasen gates, and wil burst the iron barres.

3   And I wil geue thee hidden treasures, & mysteries of secretes: that thou mayst know that I am the Lord, which cal thy name, the God of Israel.

4   For my seruant Iacob, and Israel myne elect, and I haue called thee ^note by thy name: I haue resembled thee, and ^notethou hast not knowen me.

5   I the Lord, & there is none els: beside me there is no God: I girded thee, and thou hast not knowen me:

6   that they which are from the rising of the sunne, and which are from the west may know, that there is none beside me. I the Lord, and there is none oher,

7   that forme light, and create darknesse, make peace, and create euil: I the Lord that doe al these thinges.

8    ^noteDroppe dew ye heauens from aboue, and let the cloudes rayne the iust: be the earth opened, and bud forth a sauiour: and let iustice spring vp withal: I the Lord haue created him.

9   Woe to him that gainesayeth his maker, a sheard of the earthen potres: shal the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What makest thou, & thy worke is without handes?

10   Woe to him that sayth to his father: Why doest thou beget? and to the woman: Why doest thou trauel?

11   Thus sayth our Lord the holy one ef Israel the maker therof: Aske me thinges to come: concerning my children and the worke of my handes command you me.

12   I made the earth: & man vpon the same I haue created: my handes stretched forth the heauens, and I haue commanded al their host.

13   I haue raysed him vp to iustice, & wil direct al his wayes: he shal build my citie, & dismisse my captiuitie: not for price, nor for giftes, sayth our Lord the God of hostes.

14   Thus sayth our Lord: The labour of Aegypt, and the merchandise of Aethiopia, and of Sabaim the high men shal passe to thee, & shal be thine: they shal walke after thee, they shal goe bound with manicles: and they shal adore thee, and shal beseche thee: Onlie in thee is God, and there is no God beside thee.

15   Verely thou art God hidden, the God of Israel a sauiour.

16   They are al confounded, and ashamed: the forgers of errours are gone together into confusion.

17   Israel in saued in our Lord with eternal saluation: you shal not be confounded, and you shal not be ashamed

for euer and euer.

18   Because thus sayth our Lord that created the heauens, the verie God that formed the earth, and made it, the verie maker therof: he did not create it in vaine: to be inhabited he formed it. I the Lord, and there is none other.

19   I haue not spoken in secrete, in a darke place of the earth: I haue not sayd to the seede of Iacob: Seeke me in vayne. I the Lord that speake iustice, that declare right thinges.

20   Gather ye together, and come, and approch together ye that are saued of the Gentiles: they haue bene ignorant that lift vp the wood of their grauen worke, and aske of a God that saueth not.

21   Declare ye, and come, and consult together: who hath made this to be heard from the begynning, from that time foretold this? Haue not I the Lord, and there is no God besides but I? A iust God, and that saueth there is none beside me.

22   Be conuerted to me, and you shal be saued al ye endes of the earth: because I am God, and there is none other.

23   I haue sworne by myself, the word of iustice shal procede out of my mouth, and shal not returne, because euerie knee shal be bowed to me, and euerie tongue shal sweare.

24   Therfore in our Lord, shal he say, are my iustices and empire: they shal come to him, and al that resist him, shal be confounded.

25   In our Lord shal al the seede of Israel be iustified and praysed.

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