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Isaiah 45:4

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For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

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  1. Isaiah 45:2

    I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

  2. Isaiah 45:3

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

  3. Isaiah 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:

  4. Isaiah 45:6

    That 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.

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