straight. level.
break in pieces. shiver.
gates of brass. Herodotus (i. 180) tells us that the gates leading to the river were of brass.
cut in sunder =. smash.
Related Commentaries of Isaiah 45:2
Isaiah 45:2
2 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: