Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.
New American Standard Bible
I will
King James Version
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:
Holman Bible
and level the uneven places;
I will shatter the bronze doors
and cut the iron bars in two.
International Standard Version
"I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars.
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.
American Standard Version
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;
Amplified
“I will go before you and level the mountains;
I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.
Bible in Basic English
I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:
Darby Translation
I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain; I will break in pieces the brazen doors, and cut asunder the bars of iron;
Julia Smith Translation
I will go before thee, and I will make straight the circles: I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and I will cut down the bars of iron:
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:
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I myself will go before you, and I will level [the] {mountains}. I will break [the] doors of bronze and cut through[the] bars of iron.
Modern King James verseion
I will go before you, and make hills level. I will break in pieces the bronze gates, and cut the iron bars in two.
NET Bible
"I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.
New Heart English Bible
"I will go before you, and make the mountains level. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
The Emphasized Bible
I, before thee, will go, And the hills, will I level - The doors of bronze, will I break in pieces, e And the bars of iron, will I cut asunder;
Webster
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut asunder the bars of iron:
World English Bible
"I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
Youngs Literal Translation
'I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder,
Themes
Brass » Articles made of » Gates
Call » To special religious duty » Cyrus
Gates » Fastened with bars of iron
Medo-persian kingdom » Predictions respecting » Deliverance of the jews
Topics
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 45:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cyrus, God's Instrument
1 Thus sayeth the LORD unto Cyrus his anointed, whom I have taken by the righthand, to subdue nations before him: I will loose the girdles of kings, that they shall open the gates before thy face, and not to shut their doors. 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars. 3 I shall give thee the hid treasure and the thing which is secretly kept, that thou mayest know, that I the God of Israel have called thee by thy name:
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 107:16
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and smitten the bars of iron in sunder.
Isaiah 40:4
Let all valleys be exalted, and every mountain and hill be laid low. Whatso is crooked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made plain fields.
Isaiah 13:4-17
There is a noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people, a rushing as though the kingdoms of all nations had come together. And the LORD of Hosts mustereth his army to battle.
Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind into the street, that they know not: and lead them in to a foot path, that they are ignorant in. I shall make darkness light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight. These things will I do, and not forget them.
Jeremiah 51:30
The Worthies of Babylon shall leave the battle, and keep themselves in strongholds, their strength hath failed them, they shall be like women. Their dwelling places shall be burnt up, their bars shall be broken.
Luke 3:5
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: And crooked things shall be made straight: and the rough ways shall be made smooth.
Acts 1:15
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said - the number of names that were together, were about a hundred and twenty -