Isaiah 41:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² Who has stirred up someone from the east? In righteousness he calls him to serve.  ,, The Lord hands nations over to him, and he subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like wind-driven stubble with his bow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Who has roused up one [Cyrus] from the east, whom He calls in righteousness to His service and whom victory meets at every step? He [the Lord] subdues nations before him and makes him ruler over kings. He turns them to dust with the sword [of Cyrus], and to driven straw and chaff with his bow. [Ezra 1:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Who hath raised up one from the east, whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.

Common English Bible

² Who has awakened one from the east and has authority to summon him to serve— giving him nations, conquering kings, making them like dust with his sword, like scattered straw with his bow?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Who has raised up a just man from the east, and has called him to follow him? He will place the nations under his gaze, and he will rule over kings. He will cause them to be like dust before his sword, like chaff driven by the wind before his bow.

Isaiah 41:2 Cross References

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans  to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, ‘I am God Almighty.  Live  in my presence and be blameless.

2 Samuel 22:43

I pulverise them like dust of the earth; I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.

2 Kings 13:7

Jehoahaz did not have an army left, except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them,  making them like dust at threshing.

2 Chronicles 36:23

This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a temple at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord his God be with him.

Ezra 1:2

This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.

Isaiah 40:24

They are barely planted, barely sown, their stem hardly takes root in the ground when he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

Isaiah 41:25

‘I have stirred up one from the north,  and he has come, one from the east  who invokes my   name. He will march over rulers as if they were mud, like a potter who treads the clay.

Isaiah 41:3

He pursues them, going on safely, hardly touching the path with his feet.

Isaiah 42:6

‘I am the Lord. I have called you for a righteous purpose,  , and I will hold you by your hand. I will watch over you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

Isaiah 45:1

The Lord says this to Cyrus, his anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and disarm   kings, to open doors before him, and even city gates will not be shut:

Isaiah 45:13

I have stirred him up in righteousness, and will level all roads for him. He will rebuild my city, and set my exiles free, not for a price or a bribe,’ says the Lord of Armies.

Isaiah 46:11

I call a bird of prey  from the east, a man for my purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about. I have planned it; I will also do it.

Isaiah 48:15

I #– #I have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he will succeed in his mission.

Lamentations 1:15

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men within me. He has summoned an army  against me to crush my young warriors. The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah like grapes in a winepress.

Hebrews 7:1

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, met Abraham and blessed him as he returned from defeating the kings,

Revelation 16:12

The sixth  poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates,  and its water was dried up  to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Revelation 7:2

Then I saw another angel rising up from the east,  who had the seal of the living God.  He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were allowed to harm the earth and the sea,