Isaiah 45:5

I am the Lord, I have no peer, ¹  there is no God but me. I arm you for battle, ²  even though you do not recognize ³  me.

De 4:35,39; De 32:39; 1Ki 8:60; Ezr 1:2; Job 12:18,21; Ps 18:32,39; Isa 22:21; Isa 44:8; Isa 45:14-18,21,22; Isa 46:9; Joe 2:27; Joh 1:1; Heb 1:8,9

¹ tn Heb “and there is none besides.” On the use of עוֹד (’od) here, see BDB 729 s.v. 1.c.

² tn Heb “gird you” (so NASB) or “strengthen you” (so NIV).

³ tn Or “know” (NAB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT); NIV “have not acknowledged.”