Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
ravenous bird—Cyrus so called on account of the rapidity of his marches from the distant regions of Persia to pounce on his prey (see on Isaiah 41:2; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 49:22; Ezekiel 17:3). The standard of Cyrus, too, was a golden eagle on a spear (see the heathen historian, XENOPHON, 7, where almost the same word is used, aetos, as here, ayit).
executeth my counsel— (Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:13). Babylon represents, mystically, the apostate faction: the destruction of its idols symbolizes the future general extirpation of all idolatry and unbelief.
purposed . . . also do it— (Isaiah 43:13).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 46:11:
Job 28:7
Isaiah 14:24
Isaiah 41:2
Isaiah 44:7
Isaiah 46:1
Isaiah 48:14
Daniel 7:4
Daniel 8:4
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