Isaiah 45:2

New English Translation

“I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

Cross References

Psalm 107:16

For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

Isaiah 13:2

On a bare hill raise a signal flag, shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes!

Isaiah 14:31

Wail, O city gate! Cry out, O city! Melt with fear, all you Philistines! For out of the north comes a cloud of smoke, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left in ruins; the gate is reduced to rubble.

Isaiah 40:4

Every valley must be elevated, and every mountain and hill leveled. The rough terrain will become a level plain, the rugged landscape a wide valley.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

Isaiah 45:13

It is me – I stir him up and commission him; I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe,” says the Lord who commands armies.

Isaiah 48:15

I, I have spoken – yes, I have summoned him; I lead him and he will succeed.

Jeremiah 28:13

“Go and tell Hananiah that the Lord says, ‘You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!

Jeremiah 51:30

The soldiers of Babylonia will stop fighting. They will remain in their fortified cities. They will lose their strength to do battle. They will be as frightened as women. The houses in her cities will be set on fire. The gates of her cities will be broken down.

Jeremiah 51:58

This is what the Lord who rules over all says, “Babylon’s thick wall will be completely demolished. Her high gates will be set on fire. The peoples strive for what does not satisfy. The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed.”

Daniel 5:28

As for peres – your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

Daniel 8:4

I saw that the ram was butting westward, northward, and southward. No animal was able to stand before it, and there was none who could deliver from its power. It did as it pleased and acted arrogantly.

Nahum 3:13

Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates.

Luke 3:5

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

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,