Isaiah 45:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² I will go before you and level the mountains [to make the crooked places straight]; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron.

American Standard Version (1901)

² I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;

Common English Bible

² I myself will go before you, and I will level mountains. I will shatter bronze doors; I will cut through iron bars.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I will go before you. And I will humble the glorious ones of the earth. I will shatter the gates of brass, and I will break apart the bars of iron.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² I will go before thee and will humble the great ones of the earth. I will break in pieces the gates of brass and will burst the bars of iron.

Isaiah 45:2 Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.

Isaiah 13:2

On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

Isaiah 14:31

Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks.

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Isaiah 45:13

I have aroused Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his paths straight; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 48:15

I, even I, have spoken and called him; I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.

Jeremiah 28:13

Go, tell Hananiah, Thus says the Lord: You have broken wooden bars only to forge iron bars in place of them!

Jeremiah 51:30

The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her buildings are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations only for fire, and they have become weary.

Daniel 5:28

peres: your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 8:4

I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. All beasts were powerless to withstand it, and no one could rescue from its power; it did as it pleased and became strong.

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops: they are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured the bars of your gates.

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth,

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,