Isaiah 45:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I have raised him; Cyrus, who; was named before, Isaiah 45:1. In righteousness; not in a way of absolute sovereignty, as I might have done, but most justly, to punish the wicked Babylonians, to plead the cause of the innocent oppressed ones, to manifest my own righteousness, and truth, and goodness. Direct all his ways; guide and assist him in all his travels and marches, in all his attempts, and battles, and sieges, crowning him with success in all his undertakings. Not for price nor reward; freely, without requiring any ransom for or from them, as is usual in such cases. Such an exact prediction of these things, which depended wholly upon the mind and will of Cyrus, is mentioned here, as an infallible evidence of the certainty of God's foreknowledge, and of his being the only true God, because idols could discover no such things at such a distance of time.