Isaiah 45:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of bronze, and cut through the bars of iron.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    I will go{H3212} before{H6440} thee, and make{H3474} the rough places{H1921} smooth;{H3474} I will break in pieces{H7665} the doors{H1817} of brass,{H5154} and cut in sunder{H1438} the bars{H1280} of iron;{H1270}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    I will go{H3212}{(H8799)} before{H6440} thee, and make{H3474} the crooked places{H1921}{(H8803)} straight{H3474}{(H8762)}{(H8675)}{H3474}{(H8686)}: I will break in pieces{H7665}{(H8762)} the gates{H1817} of brass{H5154}, and cut in sunder{H1438}{(H8762)} the bars{H1280} of iron{H1270}:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    I wil go before the, and make the croked straight. I shal breake the brasen dores, & burst the yron barres.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    I will goe before thee and make the crooked streight: I will breake the brasen doores, and burst the yron barres.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    I wyll go before thee, and make the crooked straigth: I shall breake the brasen doores, and burst the iron barres.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `I go before thee, and crooked places make straight, Two-leaved doors of brass I shiver, And bars of iron I cut asunder,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    I will go before thee, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:16 : 16 For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron apart.
  • Isa 40:4 : 4 Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill made low; the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth;
  • Luke 3:5 : 5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blind by a way they do not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
  • Jer 51:30 : 30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds; their might has failed; they became like women; they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
  • Isa 13:4-9 : 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like that of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the host of battle. 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6 Howl; for the day of the LORD is near; it will come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt: 8 And they will be afraid: pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in labor: they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be like flames. 9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he will destroy the sinners out of it. 10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. 11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will move out of its place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And it will be as the hunted roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land. 15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through; and everyone who is joined to them will fall by the sword. 16 Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished. 17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not regard silver; and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
  • Acts 1:15 : 15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (the number of names together was about one hundred and twenty), and said,

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