Isaiah 46:11 (KJV)

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Calling a ravenous bird from the east the man that executeth my counsel from a far country yea I have spoken it I will also bring it to pass I have purposed it I will also do it

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Calling. Isa 13:2-4 Isa 21:7-9 Isa 41:2 Isa 41:25 Isa 45:1-6 Jer 50:29 Jer 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. Isa 44:28 Isa 45:13 Isa 48:14 Isa 48:15 Ezr 1:2 Ps 76:10 Ac 4:28

that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel. Ps 119:24

I have spoken. Isa 14:24-27 Isa 38:15 Nu 23:19 Job 23:13 Jer 50:45 Ac 5:39 Eph 1:11 Eph 3:11

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