1Cyrus is the one whom Yahweh has appointed to be the emperor of Persia
2This is what Yahweh says to him:
3I will give you treasures that people have hidden in dark secret places [DOU].
4I have summoned you, calling out your name,
5I am Yahweh, and there is no other God [DOU].
6in order that everyone in the world, from the east to the west, will know that there is no other God.
7I created the light and the darkness.
8And Yahweh also says, “I want my rescue of my people [MET] to fall from the sky like rain.
9Terrible things will happen to those who argue with me, the one who created them.
10And it would be terrible if an unborn baby would say to its father,
11Yahweh, the Holy One of the Israeli people, the one who created Israel, says this to them:
12I am the one who created the earth
13And I will appoint Cyrus to do things that are right/just,
14And this is also what I, Yahweh, say to you, my people:
15God, although we cannot see you,
16All those who make idols will be humiliated.
17But you, Yahweh, will rescue us, your Israeli people,
18Yahweh is God;
19What I proclaimed, I did not speak secretly
20You people who are still alive after experiencing great disasters,
21Talk among yourselves, and decide what you will say to prove that your praying to idols is good.
22Everyone in the world should ask me to save them,
23I have solemnly declared, using my own name;
24They will declare,
25Yahweh is the only one who will enable us Israeli people in the future to defeat our enemies,