Isaiah 46:11
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
Note that…: Heb. of my counsel
I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.
calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Calling
- Isaiah 13:2–4; Isaiah 21:7–9; Isaiah 41:2, 25; Isaiah 45:1–6; Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 51:20–29
- a ravenous bird
- Or, "an eagle," a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle, [aetos chrusous,] the very word {ayit,} which the prophet uses here, expressed as near as may be in Greek letters.
- Ezekiel 39:4
- the man
- Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:13; Isaiah 48:14, 15; Ezra 1:2; Psalm 76:10; Acts 4:28
- that executeth my counsel
- Heb. of my counsel.
- Psalm 119:24
- I have spoken
- Isaiah 14:24–27; Isaiah 38:15; Numbers 23:19; Job 23:13; Jeremiah 50:45; Acts 5:39; Ephesians 1:11; Ephesians 3:11