25 Io l’ho suscitato dal settentrione, ed egli viene; dall’oriente, ed egli invoca il mio nome; egli calpesta i principi come fango, come il vasaio che calca l’argilla.
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“I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes— one from the rising sun who calls on my name. He treads on rulers as if they were mortar, as if he were a potter treading the clay.