1 THUS saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, [ this prophecy was given about 150 years before Cyrus is born. This is one of the reasons why may scholars waht to break off the latter books of Isaiah - There is no way for a prophet to know the name of a child before he is born - a prophet just cannot know this in advance, Most scolars believe that Isaiah has just ended in Chapter 39. They suppose that it is another persons writing as what is discussed pre-suposes a whole different time period. If you don't believe in prophecy you cannot accept that Isaiah could have written this in the mid 700's BC. The writing is different he has been writing about the doom of Isarel, and now the message changes, and of course if you do not believe in revelation then it would have to be written after the events had happened not prior to them happening.

so we unlike many of the rest of the world know that Isaiah wrote all 66 chapters - and how do we know it? Because they were all quoted in part at least in the Book of Mormon.

Many scholars what to abscribe chapters 40 - 66 to a fifth or sixth century Isaiah because he does thing like calls Cyrus by name, and it is just not possible to know the name of a person before the parents have had a chance to name them. But we know that these records were already recorded because they were taken by Lehi around 600 BC. They were included in the brass plates - they were quoted by

Cyrus is a type for Christ in that he is a deliverer of Israel, as he helps Judiah flee Babylon - just as the Messiah does. ] whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

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:

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.

4 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.

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:

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.

7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. [ So as to say I am not one of the Gods, but I am the only God as he is trying to say by repeating the phrase "I am the LORD, and there is none else" several times in this chapter alone. ]

8 Drop 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.

9 Woe 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?

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

11 Thus 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.

12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, [notice how he references how he did the work - with his hands, why because he paid attention to every detail. He did not get out his great big John Deere 7030 and stretch out the heavens but needed the detail that could only be performed by someone who exercised great care.] and all their host have I commanded.

13 I 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.

14 Thus 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.

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

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

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

18 For 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 created it for a purpose - which is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man] he formed it to be inhabited: [in order for the earth to fill it's purpose he woulld need to place man on it, beasts on it...] I am the LORD; and there is none else.

19 I 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.

20 ¶ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

21 Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. [ Eventually all people, every person will recognize him for who he is, it may not happen in this life but it will happen in time that everyone will recognize that he is the Messiah - the Lord of this earth. ]

24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.

25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.