Isaiah 41:25

I have stirred up one out of the north ¹  and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. ²  He steps on ³  rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

2Sa 22:43; Ezr 1:2,3; Isa 10:6; Isa 21:2; Isa 41:2; Isa 44:28; Isa 45:1-6,13; Isa 46:10,11; Jer 51:27-29; Mic 7:10; Zec 10:5

¹ sn That is, Cyrus the Persian. See the note at v. 2.

² tn Heb “[one] from the rising of the sun [who] calls in my name.”

³ tn The Hebrew text has וְיָבֹא (vÿyavo’, “and he comes”), but this is likely a corruption of an original וַיָּבָס (vayyavas), from בּוּס (bus, “step on”).