ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 41:2 one from the east. Cyrus the Great, leader of the rising Persian Empire, soon to conquer Babylon (see Isaiah 44:24). The Lord gives up (that is, gives over) nations before him (that is, before Cyrus). He (the Lord) makes them like dust with his sword (that is, with Cyrus’s sword). God is guiding events by his own overruling redemptive purpose.

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