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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 44:28 - 44:28
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my shepherd - type of Messiah (Isa 40:11; Psa 23:1; Psa 77:20; Eze 34:23).
all my pleasure - so Messiah (Isa 42:1; Isa 53:10). This is the first time Cyrus is named expressly; and that, a hundred fifty years before the time when in 550 b.c. he began his reign. The name comes from the Persian khorschid, “the sun”; kings often taking their names from the gods; the sun was worshipped as a god in Persia.
saying - rather, “and that saith”; construed with God, not with Cyrus. God’s word is instantaneously efficient in accomplishing His will.
to ... to - or, “of Jerusalem ... of the temple,” as previously, the same Hebrew word is translated, “of Cyrus” [Barnes]. English Version is more graphic. Cyrus, according to Josephus, heard of this prophecy of Isaiah delivered so long before; hence he was induced to do that which was so contrary to Oriental policy, to aid in restoring the captive Jews and rebuilding their temple and city.