Text -- Isaiah 41:25 (NET)

41:25 I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 41:25

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”).