Isaiah 45:2

“I will go before you and level mountains. ¹  Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars ²  I will hack through.

I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.

"I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.

This is what the LORD says: "I will go before you, Cyrus, and level the mountains. I will smash down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.

"I'll go ahead of you, clearing and paving the road. I'll break down bronze city gates, smash padlocks, kick down barred entrances.

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:

I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,

‘I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron.

“I will go before you and level mountains. ¹  Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars ²  I will hack through.

¹ tc The form הֲדוּרִים (hadurim) makes little, if any, sense here. It is probably a corruption of an original הָרָרִים (hararim, “mountains”), the reduplicated form of הָר (har, “mountain”).

² tn That is, on the gates. Cf. CEV “break the iron bars on bronze gates.”