“I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:”
The monotheistic assertion—'I am Yahweh, and there is no other; besides me there is no god. I arm you, though you do not know me'—reiterates absolute monotheism while affirming that God empowers Cyrus. The statement that Cyrus does not know God contrasts with God's complete knowledge and control of Cyrus. The emphasis that God provides military power ('I arm you') suggests that conquest flows from divine enablement. This verse prevents Cyrus from supposing that his success derives from his own power or from other gods.
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