Isa 13:2-4, 21:7-9, 41:2, 25, 45:1-6, Jer 50:29, 51:20-29 | TSK | STEP | Lift ye up. upon the high. shake. go into.

I have.Jehovah here, by the mouth of the prophet, predicts the victories of Cyrus over the Chaldeans and their allies, at least 150 years before the event, as one instance of his foreknowledge and invincible power. Media lay north of Babylon, and Persia eastward; and Cyrus commanded the forces of both these nations; and, by his wonderful success, he trampled down mighty monarchs as mortar, and as the potter treads the clay.

raised.

21:2; 44:28; 45:1-6,13; 46:10,11; Jer 51:27-29

shall he call.

Ezr 1:2,3

come upon.

2; 10:6; 2Sa 22:43; Mic 7:10; Zec 10:5

Isaiah 45:1-6

1 God calls Cyrus for his church's sake.

5 By his omnipotency he challenges obedience.

20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power.

to his.

13:3; 44:28; 1Ki 19:15; Jer 27:6

whose.

41:13; 42:6; Ps 73:23

holden. or, strengthened.

Eze 30:21-24

to subdue.

41:2,25; Ezr 1:1; Jer 50:3,35; 51:11,20-24; Da 5:6,28-30; 7:5; 8:3

to open.All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king.

Na 2:6

go before.

13:4-17

make.

40:4; 42:16; Ac 1:15; Lu 3:5

break.

Ps 107:16

I will give.

Jer 27:5-7; 50:37; 51:53; Eze 29:19,20

that thou.

41:23; Ezr 1:2

which call.

43:1; 48:15; 49:1; Ex 33:12,17

Jacob.

41:8,9; 43:3,4,14; 44:1; Ex 19:5,6; Jer 50:17-20; Mt 24:22

Mr 13:20; Ro 9:6; 11:7

I have even.

1; 44:28

though.

Ac 17:23; Ga 4:8,9; Eph 2:12; 1Th 4:5

the Lord.

14-18,21,22; 44:8; 46:9; De 4:35,39; 32:39; 1Ki 8:60; Joe 2:27

Joh 1:1; Heb 1:8,9

I girded thee.

22:21; Ezr 1:2; Job 12:18,21; Ps 18:32,39

37:20; 1Sa 17:46,47; Ps 46:10; 83:18; 102:15,16; Eze 38:23; 39:21

Mal 1:11

Jeremiah 50:29

the archers.

9,14,26

recompense.

15; 51:56; Ps 137:8,9; Re 16:6; 18:6

for she hath.

24,32; Ex 10:3; Isa 14:13,14; 37:23; 47:10; Da 4:37; 5:23; 11:36

2Th 2:4; Re 13:5,6

Jeremiah 51:20-29

art.

50:23; Isa 10:5,15; 13:5; 14:5,6; 37:26; 41:15,16; Mic 4:13

Zec 9:13,14; Mt 22:7

with thee. or, in thee, or, by thee. break.

25:9,11; 27:5-7

50:37; Ex 15:1,21; Ps 46:9; 76:6; Eze 39:20; Mic 5:10; Na 2:13

Hag 2:22; Zec 10:5; 12:4; Re 19:18

6:11; De 32:25; 1Sa 15:3; 2Ch 36:17; Isa 20:4; La 2:11; Eze 9:6

11,35,49; 50:15,17,18,28,29,33,34; Ps 137:8,9; Isa 47:6-9

Isa 51:22,23; 61:2; 63:1-4; 66:6; 1Th 2:15,16; Re 6:10; 18:20,24

Re 19:2-4

I am.

50:31

O destroying.

53,58; Ge 11:4; Isa 13:2; Da 4:30; Zec 4:7

which destroyest.

7,20-23; 25:9,18-27; Re 8:8; 17:1-6

and will.

2Pe 3:10; Re 8:8; 18:9,10

shall not.

37,43; 50:12,13; Isa 13:19-22; 14:23

desolate for ever. Heb. everlasting desolations.

50:40,41; Isa 34:8-17; Re 18:20-24

ye up.

12; 6:1; 50:2,41; Isa 13:2-5; 18:3; Am 3:6; Zec 14:2

prepare.

25:14

Ararat.Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont, part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus king of Lydia, (B.C. 548,) and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus.

Ge 8:4

Ashchenaz.

Ge 10:3

Ashkenaz.

1Ch 1:6

cause.

14; 46:23; 50:41,42; Jud 6:5; Joe 2:2,3; Na 3:15-17; Re 9:7-11After Cyrus had been the instrument in the hands of God of taking Babylon, he marched against Tomyris, queen of the Massagetæ, a Scythian nation, and was totally defeated, (B.C. 530.) The victorious queen, who had lost her son in a previous battle, was so incensed against Cyrus, that she cut off his head, and threw it into a vessel filled with human blood, exclaiming, "Sattia te sanguine, quem sitisti."

the kings.

11; 25:25; Ge 10:2; 1Ch 1:5

Madia.

Es 1:3; 10:2; Isa 13:17; 21:2; Da 5:28-30; 6:8; 8:3,4,20; 9:1

the land.

8:16; 10:10; 50:36,43; Isa 13:13,14; 14:16; Joe 2:10; Am 8:8

every.

11,12,43,62-64; 50:13,39,40,45; Isa 13:19,20; 14:23,24; 46:10,11

Isa 47:1-15; Re 18:2,21-24