Isaiah 46:11
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| Overview - Isaiah 46 | |
| 1 | The idols of Babylon could not save themselves. |
| 3 | God saves his people to the end. |
| 5 | Idols are not comparable to God for power, |
| 12 | or present salvation. |
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Isaiah 46:11 (King James Version)
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.
- Calling
- 13:2-4 21:7-9 Isaiah 41:2 Isaiah 41:25 45:1-6 Jeremiah 50:29 ; 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.
- Ezekiel 39:4
- the man
- 44:28 45:13 Isaiah 48:14 Isaiah 48:15 Ezra 1:2 ; Psalms 76:10 ; Acts 4:28
- that executeth my counsel
- Hebrew of my counsel.
- Psalms 119:24 ; *marg:
- I have spoken
- 14:24-27 38:15 Numbers 23:19 ; Job 23:13 ; Jeremiah 50:45 ; Acts 5:39 ; Ephesians 1:11
- Ephesians 3:11