45:2 “I will go before you
and level mountains. 1
Bronze doors I will shatter
and iron bars 2 I will hack through.
45:13 It is me – I stir him up and commission him; 3
I will make all his ways level.
He will rebuild my city;
he will send my exiled people home,
but not for a price or a bribe,”
says the Lord who commands armies.
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.”
3 tn Heb “I stir him up in righteousness”; NASB “I have aroused him.” See the note at 41:2. Cyrus (cf. 44:28) is in view here.