“This is what the Lord says to his anointed,
    to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of
to subdue nations before him
    and to strip kings of their armour,
to open doors before him
    so that gates will not be shut:
2 I will go before you
    and will level the mountains;
I will break down gates of bronze
    and cut through bars of iron.
3 I will give you hidden treasures,
    riches stored in secret places,
so that you may know that I am the Lord,
    the God of Israel, who summons you by name.
4 For the sake of Jacob my servant,
    of Israel my chosen,
I summon you by name
    and bestow on you a title of honor,
    though you do not acknowledge me.
5 I am the Lord, and there is no other;
    apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you,
    though you have not acknowledged me,
6 so that from the rising of the sun
    to the place of its setting
people may know there is none besides me.
    I am the Lord, and there is no other.
7 I form the light and create darkness,
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

Before moving on, I thought it would be appropriate to quote Barry Webb, with reference to Cyrus:

‘The captives from Judah must have been particularly startled by the title his (God’s) anointed (1). In Hebrew it is massiah (messiah), a title normally reserved for Saul, Israel’s first king, and for the kings of the line of David who followed him. It refers to the human king who is the LORD’s chosen representative, the one who stands at the very centre of his purposes for his people and for the world…Cyrus was only a temporary ‘messiah’, used by God for a very specific task at a time when the house of David was in total disarray. It is the Servant whom we met at the beginning of chapter 42 who stands at the centre of God’s longer-term plans for his people, not Cyrus, and Isaiah will eventually relate the ministry of this Servant to the ‘faithful love promised to David’ (55:3)…In short, God was going to use Cyrus to put his people back in Jerusalem, so that from there, the place he had chosen to be the centre of his kingdom on earth, the truth about him might become known everywhere. In the longer plan of God, of course, it was to Jerusalem that Israel’s true Messiah, the Son of David, eventually came to fulfil his mission, and it was from there that the gospel went out to the whole world.’ (‘Isaiah’, pp183,184).