11–13 There is a clear, if implicit, reference to Cyrus in v.13 (NIV supplies “Cyrus” for MT’s “him”); and this passage establishes him as a subject of prediction, not p 272 simply of description ex eventu. The reference to the children and the work of his hands are chiastic allusions to vv.9–10.
Geoffrey W. Grogan, “Isaiah,” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, ed. Frank E. Gaebelein, vol. 6 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1986), 271–272.
The links to embedded verse references in comment point to the wrong chapter (44), instead of chapter 45.
