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The LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him and strip kings of their armor, to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: See also: Jeremiah 51:20-24Isaiah 42:6Isaiah 44:28“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron. See also: Isaiah 40:4Isaiah 42:16Luke 3:5I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, who calls you by your name, even the God of Israel. See also: Isaiah 48:15Isaiah 43:1Exodus 33:17For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me. See also: Isaiah 41:8-9Isaiah 44:1Romans 11:7I am the LORD, and there is no one else. Besides me, there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not known me, See also: Isaiah 44:6Isaiah 44:8Isaiah 46:9that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no one else. See also: Malachi 1:11Isaiah 45:5Isaiah 37:20I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:13-14Amos 3:6Psalms 75:7Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it. See also: Hosea 10:12Isaiah 61:11Psalms 72:6Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands’? See also: Romans 9:20-21Isaiah 64:8Isaiah 10:15Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’” See also: Malachi 1:6Deuteronomy 27:16Hebrews 12:9The LORD, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands! See also: Jeremiah 33:3Mark 11:24Isaiah 48:17I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army. See also: Jeremiah 27:5Isaiah 42:5Isaiah 44:24I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Isaiah 41:2Isaiah 41:25Isaiah 49:25The LORD says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god. See also: Isaiah 49:231 Corinthians 14:25Jeremiah 16:19Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’” See also: Isaiah 8:17Psalms 44:24Isaiah 57:17They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together. See also: Isaiah 42:17Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 44:11Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting. See also: Romans 10:11Psalms 25:3Isaiah 54:4For the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am the LORD. There is no other. See also: Psalms 115:16Jeremiah 10:12Isaiah 42:5I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right. See also: Isaiah 48:16Amos 5:4Numbers 23:19-20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save. See also: Isaiah 43:9Jeremiah 10:5Isaiah 44:17-20Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, the LORD? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me. See also: Isaiah 45:5Isaiah 46:9-10Isaiah 43:11“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. See also: John 6:40Micah 7:7Hebrews 12:2I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath. See also: Philippians 2:10Romans 14:10-12Isaiah 55:11They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in the LORD.’” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed. See also: Isaiah 41:11Philippians 4:13Isaiah 54:17All the offspring of Israel will be justified in the LORD, and will rejoice! See also: Isaiah 41:16Galatians 3:27-291 Corinthians 6:11
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)19 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 45:1
Ver. 1. Anointed, often implies one chosen for some great work. Cyrus was to ruin the empire of Babylon, and to set the nations at liberty. He was a proof of the Deity by executing his decrees.
--- Cyrus. Some copies of the Sept. seem to have read kurio, "to the Lord,"
incorrectly. S. Jer. ---
Though Cyrus was not anointed, he is styled thus, in allusion to the custom of the Jewish kings.
W.
↑ 1Isaiah 45:2
Ver. 2. Brass. Babylon had 100 such gates. Herod. i. 179.
↑ 2Isaiah 45:3
Ver. 3. Treasures. See Pliny xxxiii. 3. He overcame the rich king of Lydia, &c.
↑ 3Isaiah 45:4
Ver. 4. Likeness of Christ. --- Known me. Before the Jews had shewn Cyrus the prophecies, he did not attribute his success to the Lord, and even afterwards he seems not to have left the superstitions of his country, as his sacrifices to idols are described. He resembled Nabuchodonosor and the philosophers, who did not glorify God according to their knowledge.
Dan. ii. 47. Rom. i. 21. Cyrus even revoked the decree for building the temple. 1
Esd. iv. 5. C.
--- He believed there was one God; (1 Esd. i.) yet he did not embrace the truth entirely. W.
↑ 4Isaiah 45:7
Ver. 7. Create evil, &c. The evils of afflictions and punishments, but not the evil of sin. Ch. --- I afflict and comfort my people.
↑ 7Isaiah 45:8
Ver. 8. Saviour. Thus the ancient saints thirsted for the coming of Christ. His figure is styled the just. C. xli. 2. 25. --- Him. Christ, born of the virgin, in time, and of God from all eternity. I have appointed Cyrus to be his precursor, to set the captives free. C. --- He has been spoken of before. But now the prophet turns to Christ alone, who built his Church on a rock. W. --- Cyrus had not a right faith in God, and Zorobabel was himself set free, and was not king. S. Jer.
↑ 8Isaiah 45:9
Ver. 9. Earthen. Lit. "Samian." H. --- Samos was famous for its pottery. Pliny xxxv. 12. Heb.
"Clay, disputest thou against the potters of the earth?" He shews the folly of idols, after having proved his own divinity. C. --- Prot. "Let the potsherds strive with the potsherds of the earth." H.
↑ 9Isaiah 45:10
Ver. 10. Forth. As such language would be improper to parents, so it is wrong to complain that God places us in any situation. M.
↑ 10Isaiah 45:11
Ver. 11. To me. Ask what will come to pass, or direct me how to act.
↑ 11Isaiah 45:13
Ver. 13. Justice. Cyrus shall punish the Chaldees and restore the Jews. C. ---
The prophet returns to him after having mentioned a greater Saviour. v. 8.
Houbig.
↑ 13Isaiah 45:14
Ver. 14. Stature: the people of Saba were the tallest and best proportioned in Arabia. Agathar. v.
50. --- Cyrus possessed all these countries. He sent the Egyptians home in the third year of his reign, at Babylon, A. 3470. Ezec. xxix. 11. They never became subject to the Jews; but embraced the religion of Christ, acknowledging him for God. v. 15. C. --- Besides thee. Prot.
"Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, there is no God." Those whom we have hitherto adored, deserved not the name. Vulg. and Sept. make the people address Christ, the God-man.
H.
↑ 14Isaiah 45:15
Ver. 15. Saviour. We confess that thou hast delivered the Jews; or rather, we acknowledge that thou, O Christ, art true God under the veils of thy human nature, and Saviour of all. Cyrus was only a feeble representation of thee.
↑ 15Isaiah 45:16
Ver. 16. Confusion. Idolaters shall be confounded, when they shall behold the glory of the elect.
↑ 16Isaiah 45:18
Ver. 18. In vain. Heb. "to be a chaos." Gen. viii. 2.
↑ 18Isaiah 45:19
Ver. 19. Earth. The pagan oracles were given chiefly in mountains, where the impostures of the priests might escape detection. They were also generally ambiguous, or mere guesses. The declarations of the true prophets were quite the reverse. --- In vain; without reward. C.
↑ 19Isaiah 45:20
Ver. 20. Gentiles: converts, (H.) or Jews, returning from Babylon.
↑ 20Isaiah 45:21
Ver. 21. Me. He transports his auditors to the times succeeding the captivity, when the completion of the prophecies will be evident.
↑ 21Isaiah 45:23–24
Ver. 23-24. Myself, having none greater. Heb. vi. 13. --- Justice: sure. --- To me.
All that are born belong to me. The Jewish women had seldom recourse to midwives, (Ex. i. 19. and 1 K. iv.
19. C.) no more than the Ethiopians. Ludolf. i. 14. --- Swear, by the true God. H.
--- Oaths on proper occasions, honour him. Deut. vi. 13. Nothing could be spoken more plainly of the Gentiles' conversion.
↑ 23Isaiah 45:25
Ver. 25. Empire. Cyrus shall make this confession, (1 Esd. i. 2.) and all who embrace the religion of Christ, shall attribute all their virtue to him.
↑ 25License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses