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Isaias 45:3-16 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

3. And I will give thee hidden treasures, and the concealed riches of secret places: that thou mayest know that I am the Lord who call thee by thy name, the God of Israel.

4. For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast not known me.

5. I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God, besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:

6. That they may know who are from the rising of the sun, and they who are from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else:

7. I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

8. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the just: let the earth be opened, and bud forth a saviour: and let justice spring up together: I the Lord have created him.

9. Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

10. Woe to him that saith to his father: Why begettest thou? and to the woman: Why dost thou bring forth?

11. Thus saith the Lord the Holy One of Israel, his maker: Ask me of things to come, concerning my children, and concerning the work of my hands give ye charge to me.

12. I made the earth: and I created man upon it: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and I have commanded all their host.

13. I have raised him up to justice, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and let go my captives, not for ransom, nor for presents, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

14. Thus saith the Lord: The labour of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and of Sabaim, men of stature shall come over to thee, and shall be thins: they shall walk after thee, they shall go bound with manacles: and they shall worship thee, and shall make supplication to thee: only in thee is God, and there is no God besides thee.

15. Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.

16. They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.

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