Isaiah 21:2

2A stern vision is told to me;
athe traitor betrays,
and the destroyer destroys.
Go up, O bElam;
lay siege, O cMedia;
all the dsighing she has caused
I bring to an end.

Isaiah 41:25

25 eI stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
ffrom the rising of the sun, gand he shall call upon my name;
he shall trample on rulers as on mortar,
as the potter treads clay.

Isaiah 45:1-4

Cyrus, God’s Instrument

1 Thus says the Lord to hhis anointed, to Cyrus,
iwhose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and jto loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2I will go before you
and klevel the exalted places,
Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint  level the mountains

mI will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
3 nI will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, owho call you by your name.
4For the sake of my servant Jacob,
and Israel my chosen,
pI call you by your name,
qI name you, though you do not know me.
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