unfoldingWord_en_tn/isa/41/25.md

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  • Yahweh continues speaking.
  • I have raised up one - "I have appointed and given the strength"
  • from the sun's rising - AT: “from the east" (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_idiom)
  • and he will trample the rulers like mud, like a potter who is treading on the clay - This means this king and his army will defeat their enemy. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_simile)
  • he will trample the rulers - AT: "he will conquer the rulers" (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
  • Who announced this from the beginning, that we might know? And before time, that we may say, 'He is right'? - Yahweh uses questions to scold the people and their idols. AT: "I was the one who announced this a long time ago, so that you might know and say 'Yahweh is right.'" (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion)
  • Indeed none of them decreed it, yes, none heard you say anything - "Certainly, none of your idols announced it. They did not say anything"