OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 13

Isaiah 45:13

I have raised him up in righteousness,

and I will make all his ways straight.

He shall build my city,

and he shall let my exiles go free,

not for price nor reward,” says the LORD of Armies.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Isaiah 45:13 in context

Isaiah 45:10–16

Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’

or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’”

The LORD, the Holy One of Israel

and his Maker says:

“You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons,

and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

I have made the earth, and created man on it.

I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens.

I have commanded all their army.

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I have raised him up in righteousness,

and I will make all his ways straight.

He shall build my city,

and he shall let my exiles go free,

not for price nor reward,” says the LORD of Armies.

The LORD says: “The labor of Egypt,

and the merchandise of Ethiopia,

and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you,

and they will be yours.

They will go after you.

They shall come over in chains.

They will bow down to you.

They will make supplication to you:

‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else.

There is no other god.

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself,

God of Israel, the Savior.’”

They will be disappointed,

yes, confounded, all of them.

Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

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