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Isaiah 41:25
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23 aShow the things that are to come hereafter,
That we may know that you are gods;
Yes, bdo good or do evil,
That we may be dismayed and see it together. 
24 Indeed ayou are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination. 
25 “I have raised up one from the1 north,
And he shall come;
From the rising of the sun ahe shall call on My name;
bAnd he shall come against princes as though mortar,
As the potter treads clay. 
26 aWho has declared from the beginning, that we may know?
And former times, that we may say, ‘He is righteous’?
Surely there is no one who shows,
Surely there is no one who declares,
Surely there is no one who hears your words. 
27 aThe first time bI said to Zion,
‘Look, there they are!’
And I will give to Jerusalem one who brings good tidings. 
28 aFor I looked, and there was no man;
I looked among them, but there was no counselor,
Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word. 
29 aIndeed they are all1 worthless;
Their works are nothing;
Their molded images are wind and confusion. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 41:25

raised up—in purpose: not fulfilled till a hundred fifty years afterwards.

north—In Isaiah 41:2, "from the East"; both are true: see the note there.

call . . . my name—acknowledge Me as God, and attribute his success to Me; this he did in the proclamation (Ezra 1:2). This does not necessarily imply that Cyrus renounced idolatry, but hearing of Isaiah's prophecy given a hundred fifty years before, so fully realized in his own acts, he recognized God as the true God, but retained his idol (so Naaman, 2Ki. 5:1-27; compare II Kings 17:33, II Kings 17:41; Daniel 3:28; Daniel 4:1-3, Daniel 4:34-37).

princes—the Babylonian satraps or governors of provinces.

mortar—"mire"; He shall tread them under foot as dirt (Isaiah 10:6).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 41:25:

Isaiah 41:2
Isaiah 41:21
Isaiah 46:11

 

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