Isaiah 45:2

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places smooth.

Luke 3:5

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low. And the crooked things will be into straight and the rough into smooth ways.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not. I will lead them in paths that they know not. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

Psalm 107:16

For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron apart.

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling-places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

Acts 1:15

And in those days, Peter, having stood up in the midst of the disciples (and there was a multitude of names at the same place, about a hundred twenty), he said

Isaiah 14:31

Howl, O gate, cry, O city. Thou are melted away, O Philistia, all of thee. For there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

Isaiah 24:12

Desolation is left in the city, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Isaiah 45:13

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 48:15

I, even I, have spoken, yea, I have called him. I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

Jeremiah 28:13

Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says LORD: Thou have broken the bars of wood, but I have made in their stead bars of iron.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. And the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire, and they shall be weary.

Daniel 5:28

PERES, thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Nahum 3:13

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women. The gates of thy land are set wide open to thine enemies. The fire has devoured thy bars.

Isaiah 13:2

Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain. Lift up the voice to them. Wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Daniel 8:4

I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward, and no beasts could stand before him, nor was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.