For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two.
Isaiah 45:2 - King James 2000 I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two.
Lift up a banner upon the high mountain, raise the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Wail, O gate; cry, O city; you, all of Philistia, are dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is stricken with destruction.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth:
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall set free my exiles, not for price nor reward, says the LORD of hosts.
I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says the LORD; You have broken the yokes of wood; but you shall make for them yokes of iron.
The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds: their might has failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
Thus says the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the nations, because of the fire, and they shall be weary.
I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.
Behold, your troops in the midst of you are women: the gates of your land shall be set wide open unto your enemies: the fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about a hundred and twenty,)