Pro 29:1, Isa 13:1-5, 16-18, 21:2-9, 41:25, 45:1-3, 46:11, 47:11 | TSK | STEP | Observations of public government, and of private. Of anger, pride, thievery, cowardice, and corruption. He, that being often reproved. Heb. a man of reproofs. hardeneth. shall.

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 45:1-3

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

Isaiah 46:11

Calling.

13:2-4; 21:7-9; 41:2,25; 45:1-6; Jer 50:29; 51:20-29

a ravenous bird.Or, "an eagle," a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle, [aetos chrusous,] the very word {ayit,} which the prophet uses here, expressed as near as may be in Greek letters.

Eze 39:4

the man.

44:28; 45:13; 48:14,15; Ezr 1:2; Ps 76:10; Ac 4:28

that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel.

Ps 119:24; *marg:

I have spoken.

14:24-27; 38:15; Nu 23:19; Job 23:13; Jer 50:45; Ac 5:39; Eph 1:11

Eph 3:11

Isaiah 47:11

thou shalt not know.

37:36; Ex 12:29,30; Ne 4:11; Re 3:3

from whence it riseth. Heb. the morning thereof. thou shaltnot be.

Ps 50:22; Jer 51:39-42; Da 5:25-30; 1Th 5:3; Re 18:9,10

put it off. Heb. expiate.

Mt 18:34; Lu 12:59