Isaiah 45:5
Good News Translation
"I am the LORD; there is no other god. I will give you the strength you need, although you do not know me.

New Revised Standard Version
I am the LORD, and there is no other; besides me there is no god. I arm you, though you do not know me,

Contemporary English Version
Only I am the LORD! There are no other gods. I have made you strong, though you don't know me.

New American Bible
I am the LORD, there is no other, there is no God besides me. It is I who arm you, though you do not know me,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Isaiah 45:14-18,21,22 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 thine: 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. . . .

Isaiah 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?

Isaiah 46:9 Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.

Deuteronomy 4:35,39 That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Kings 8:60 That all the people of the earth may know, that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

Joel 2:27 And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: and I am the Lord your God, and there is none besides: and my people shall not be confounded forever.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God.

Hebrews 1:8,9 But to the Son: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of justice is the sceptre of thy kingdom. . . .

I girded thee

Isaiah 22:21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.

Ezra 1:2 Thus saith Cyrus king of the Persians: The Lord the God of heaven hath given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judea.

Job 12:18,21 He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord. . . .

Psalm 18:32,39 God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless. . . .

Context
God Calls Cyrus
4For 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. 5I am the Lord, and there is none else: there is no God besides me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me:6That 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:…
Cross References
Exodus 9:14
For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayst know that there is none like me in all the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:35
That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, and there is no other besides him.

Deuteronomy 32:39
See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Psalm 18:31
For who is God but the Lord? or who is God but our God?

Psalm 18:32
God, who hath girt me with strength; and made my way blameless.

Psalm 18:39
And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.

Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none.

Isaiah 44:6
Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last, and besides me there is no God.

Isaiah 44:8
Fear ye not, neither be ye troubled from that time I have made thee to hear, and have declared: you are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me, a maker, whom I have not known?

Isaiah 45:1
Thus saith the Lord to my anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue nations before his face, and to turn the backs of kings, and to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut.

Isaiah 45:6
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:

Isaiah 45:14
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 thine: 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.

Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

Isaiah 45:21
Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.

Isaiah 46:9
Remember this, and be ashamed: return, ye transgressors, to the heart.

Isaiah 47:8
And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.

Ezekiel 30:24
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and will put my sword in his hand: and I will break the arms of Pharao, and they shall groan bitterly being slain before his face.

Joel 2:27
And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: and I am the Lord your God, and there is none besides: and my people shall not be confounded forever.

Isaiah 45:4
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