Isaiah 46:11

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Summary

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

A ravenous bird

Ezekiel 39:4

The man

I have spoken

General references

Bible References

Calling

Lift up the banner upon the high hill, call unto them; hold up your hand, that the princes may go in at the door.

And when he had waited diligently, he saw two horsemen: the one riding upon an Ass, the other upon a camel.

Who raiseth up the just from the rising of the Sun, and calleth him to go forth? Who casteth down the people, and subdueth the kings before him: that he may throw them all to the ground with his sword, and scatter them like stubble with his bow?

Thus sayeth the LORD unto Cyrus his anointed, whom I have taken by the righthand, to subdue nations before him: I will loose the girdles of kings, that they shall open the gates before thy face, and not to shut their doors.

'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel.

Thou breakest my weapons of war, and yet through thee I have scattered the nations and kingdoms;

A ravenous bird

Thou with all thine heap, and all the people that is with thee, must fall upon the mountains of Israel. Then will I give thee unto the fouls and wild beasts of the field, to be devoured.

The man

I say to Cyrus, "Thou art mine herdsman," so that he shall fulfill all things after my will. I say unto Jerusalem, "Be thou builded," and to the temple, "Be thou fast grounded."

I shall wake him up with righteousness, and order all his ways. He shall build my city, and let out my prisoners: and that neither for gifts or rewards, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Gather you all together, and hearken: Which of yonder gods hath declared this? The LORD God hath a love unto him, and he shall perform his will against Babel and declare his power against the Chaldeans.

"Thus sayeth Cyrus the king of Persia: 'The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the land and hath commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.

The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise; and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain.

for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

I have spoken

The LORD of Hosts hath sworn an oath, saying: It shall come to pass as I have determined, and shall be fulfilled as I have devised.

What shall I say? The Lord hath made a promise to me. Yea, and he himself hath performed it. I shall therefore, as long as I live, remember bitterness of my life.

The Lord God is not a man, that he can lie; neither the son of a man, that he can repent! Should he say, and not do? Or should he speak, and not make it good?

"It is he, himself, alone. Who will turn him back? He doth as him listeth, and bringeth to pass what he will.

Therefore hear the counsel that the LORD hath given upon Babylon, and the device that he hath taken upon the land of the Chaldeans. The least among the people shall tear them in pieces, and look: what pleasant thing they have, they shall lay it waste.

but and if it be of God, ye cannot destroy it, lest haply ye be found to strive against God."

in whom we are made heirs, and were thereto predestinate according to the purpose of him which worketh all things after the purpose of his own will:

according to that eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,

General references

There is no wisdom, there is no understanding, there is no counsel against the LORD.

For thus sayeth the LORD God thereto: It shall not so go forth, neither come so to pass:

Take heed: I have told you before.

according to that eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord,