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:
Ver. 2. And make the crooked places even.] Or, The hilly places level.
I will break in pieces the gates of brass.] This God would do, that his temple might be built; compare Isa 44:28 but in the New Testament, Christ throweth the gates of hell off their hinges, like another Samson, that he may build his Church. Mat 16:18 And it is this Aedificabo Ecclesiam meam I will build my church, that hath made all the stir in the world.