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Isaiah 45:5

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¶ I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
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  1. Isaiah 44:6Rank 1 from verse 5
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    6Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

  2. Isaiah 44:8Rank 2 from verse 5
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    8Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

  3. Isaiah 46:9Rank 3 from verse 5
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    9Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

  4. Joel 2:27Rank 4 from verse 5
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    27And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

  5. 1 Kings 8:60Rank 5 from verse 5
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    60That all the people of the earth may know that the Lord is God, and that there is none else.

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Isaiah 45:5

COMBINED MEANING

girded

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of gird, meaning to fasten clothing or another object around the body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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45:5¶ I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

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45:6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

45:7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

45:8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.

45:9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

45:10Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

45:11Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

45:12I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

45:13I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.

45:14Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

45:15Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

45:16They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

45:17But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

45:18For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.

45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

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