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Isaiah 45

Isa. 45:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I have not spoken
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
in secret
cether (Hebrew #5643)
from 5641; a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
KJV usage: backbiting, covering, covert, X disguise(-th), hiding place, privily, protection, secret(-ly, place).
Pronounce: say'-ther
Origin: or (feminine) cithrah (Deut. 32:38), {sith-raw'}
a, in a dark
choshek (Hebrew #2822)
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
KJV usage: dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
Pronounce: kho-shek'
Origin: from 2821
place
maqowm (Hebrew #4725)
also (feminine) mqowmah {mek-o-mah'}; or mqomah {mek-o-mah'}; from 6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
KJV usage: country, X home, X open, place, room, space, X whither(-soever).
Pronounce: maw-kome'
Origin: or maqom {maw-kome'}
of the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
: I said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
not unto the seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
of Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
, Seek
baqash (Hebrew #1245)
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Pronounce: baw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
ye me inc vain
tohuw (Hebrew #8414)
a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain
KJV usage: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Pronounce: to'-hoo
Origin: from an unused root meaning to lie waste
: I the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
righteousness
tsedeq (Hebrew #6664)
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
KJV usage: X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness).
Pronounce: tseh'-dek
Origin: from 6663
, I declare
nagad (Hebrew #5046)
properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise
KJV usage: bewray, X certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, X fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, X surely, tell, utter.
Pronounce: naw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
things that are right
meyshar (Hebrew #4339)
evenness, i.e. (figuratively) prosperity or concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) rectitude (only in plural with singular sense; often adverbially)
KJV usage: agreement, aright, that are equal, equity, (things that are) right(-eously, things), sweetly, upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: may-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
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Deut. 29:29• 29The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Deut. 29:29)
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Deut. 30:11• 11For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. (Deut. 30:11)
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Psa. 9:10• 10And they who know thy name will trust in thee;{HR}For thou hast not forsaken those who seek thee, O Jehovah. (Psa. 9:10)
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Psa. 69:32• 32The meek have seen [and] are glad;{HR}Ye that seek God, your heart shall live. (Psa. 69:32)

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Isa. 43:9‑10• 9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them declareth this, and showeth us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth.
 10Ye [are] my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] He; before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me. (Isa. 43:9‑10)
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Isa. 48:16• 16Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there [am] I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit. (Isa. 48:16)
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Deut. 29:29• 29The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (Deut. 29:29)
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Deut. 30:11‑14• 11For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
 12It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
 13And it is not beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, that we should hear it and do it?
 14For the word is very near to thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. (Deut. 30:11‑14)
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Prov. 1:21• 21She calleth at the head of the noisy (streets),{HR}At the entry of the gates;{HR}In the city she uttereth her words, (Prov. 1:21)
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Prov. 8:1‑4• 1Doth not wisdom cry,{HR}And understanding put forth her voice?
 2On the top of high places by the way,{HR}Where paths meet, she standeth;
 3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,{HR}At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
 4To you, O men, I call,{HR}And my voice [is] to the sons of man. (Prov. 8:1‑4)
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John 7:26,28• 26And, behold, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing to him. Did the rulers indeed decide that this is the Christ?
 28Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me and ye know whence I am; and I have not come from myself, but he that sent me is true whom ye know not. (John 7:26,28)
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John 7:37‑39• 37Now in the last, the great, day of the feast Jesus stood and cried, saying, If anyone thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
 38He that believeth on me, even as the scripture said, Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
 39But this said he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were about to receive, for [the] Spirit was not yet, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:37‑39)
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John 18:20• 20Jesus answered, I have openly spoken in the world, I always taught in [the] synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble, and in secret I spoke nothing: (John 18:20)
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Acts 2:4‑8• 4And they were all filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them to utter.
 5Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, pious men, from every nation of those under heaven;
 6and when this report was made, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because they each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.
 7And they were all amazed and wondering, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galileans?
 8And how hear we each in our own dialect in which we were born? (Acts 2:4‑8)
Seek.
Isa. 1:15• 15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:15)
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Isa. 8:19• 19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living [should they seek] unto the dead. (Isa. 8:19)
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Isa. 55:6‑7• 6Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. (Isa. 55:6‑7)
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Isa. 58:1‑3• 1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
 2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that doeth righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous ordinances, they delight to draw near unto God.
 3Wherefore have we fasted, [say they,] and thou seest not? [wherefore] have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find [your own] pleasure, and exact all your labours. (Isa. 58:1‑3)
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1 Chron. 28:8• 8And now in the sight of all Israel, the congregation of Jehovah, and in the audience of our God, —keep and seek for all the commandments of Jehovah your God; that ye may possess the good land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children after you forever. (1 Chron. 28:8)
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2 Chron. 15:2• 2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. (2 Chron. 15:2)
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Ezra 8:22• 22For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. (Ezra 8:22)
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Psa. 24:6• 6This [is] the generation of those who seek him,{HR}Who seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. (Psa. 24:6)
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Psa. 69:13,32• 13But as for me, my prayer [is] to thee,{HR}O Jehovah (in) an acceptable time;{HR}O God, in the abundance of thy mercy answer me,{HR}In the truth of thy salvation.
 32The meek have seen [and] are glad;{HR}Ye that seek God, your heart shall live. (Psa. 69:13,32)
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Prov. 15:8• 8The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to Jehovah;{HR}But the prayer of the upright [is] His delight. (Prov. 15:8)
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Jer. 29:13• 13And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. (Jer. 29:13)
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Amos 5:4• 4For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live. (Amos 5:4)
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Mal. 3:13‑14• 13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
 14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? (Mal. 3:13‑14)
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Matt. 15:8‑9• 8This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;
 9but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men. (Matt. 15:8‑9)
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James 4:3• 3ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures. (James 4:3)
speak righteousness.
Isa. 63:1• 1Who [is] this that cometh from Edom, with deep-red garments from Bozrah, this [that is] glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. (Isa. 63:1)
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Num. 23:19‑20• 19Elohim is not a man, that he should lie;{HR}Neither the son of man, that he should repent:{HR}Hath he said, and shall he not do it?{HR}Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
 20Behold, I have received commandment to bless:{HR}And he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it. (Num. 23:19‑20)
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Deut. 32:4• 4He is the Rock, his doing is perfect:{HR}For all his ways are judgment:{HR}A God of truth without iniquity,{HR}Just and right is he. (Deut. 32:4)
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Psa. 9:10• 10And they who know thy name will trust in thee;{HR}For thou hast not forsaken those who seek thee, O Jehovah. (Psa. 9:10)
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Psa. 12:6• 6The words of Jehovah [are] pure words,{HR}Silver refined in a crucible of earth, sevenfold purified. (Psa. 12:6)
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Psa. 19:7‑10• 7The law of Jehovah [is] perfect, restoring the soul;{HR}The testimony of Jehovah [is] true, making wise the simple.
 8The precepts of Jehovah [are] right, rejoicing the heart;{HR}The commandment of Jehovah [is] clear, enlightening the eyes.
 9The fear of Jehovah [is] pure, enduring forever;{HR}The judgments of Jehovah [are] truth, they [are] righteous altogether,
 10To be desired more than gold, and more than much pure gold;{HR}And sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb. (Psa. 19:7‑10)
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Psa. 111:7‑8• 7The works of his hands [are] truth and judgment;{HR}All his precepts [are] sure.
 8Settled [are they] for ever and ever,{HR}Done in truth and uprightness. (Psa. 111:7‑8)
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Psa. 119:137‑138• 137Righteous [art] thou, Jehovah,{HR}And upright thy judgments.
 138Thou hast commanded thy testimonies [in] righteousness{HR}And exceeding faithfulness. (Psa. 119:137‑138)
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Prov. 8:6• 6Hear, for I will speak excellent things,{HR}And the opening of my lips [shall be] right things. (Prov. 8:6)
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Prov. 30:5• 5Every word of God is pure:{HR}He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Prov. 30:5)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are right.

W. Kelly Translation

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I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I [am] Jehovah speaking righteousness, declaring things that are right.