1 “Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To ^aCyrus, whose ^bright hand I have held—
^cTo subdue nations before him
And ^dloose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut: ‡

2 ‘I will go before you
^aAnd¹ make the crooked places straight;
^bI will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron. ‡

5 I ^aam the Lord, and ^bthere is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
^cI will gird you, though you have not known Me, ‡

6 ^aThat they may ^bknow from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the Lord, and there is no other; ‡