Isaiah 41:25 (KJV)

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I have raised up one from the north and he shall come from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name and he shall come upon princes as upon morter and as the potter treadeth clay

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raised. Isa 21:2 Isa 44:28 Isa 45:1-6 Isa 45:13 Isa 46:10 Isa 46:11 Jer 51:27-29

shall he call. Ezr 1:2 Ezr 1:3

come upon. Isa 41:2 Isa 10:6 2Sa 22:43 Mic 7:10 Zec 10:5

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.

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