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:
I will ... make the crooked places straight - (Isaiah 40:4.) So the Qeri' reads х 'ªyasheer (H3474)]: so Isaiah 45:13, margin. But the Kethibh ['owsheer, or 'ªwasheer], 'I will level the heights' - i:e., clear out of thy way all opposing persons and things.
I will break in pieces the gates of brass - (Psalms 107:16.) Herodotus, 1:, sec. 179, says, Babylon had 100 massive gates, 25 on each of the four sides of the city, all, as well as their posts, of brass.
And cut in sunder the bars of iron - with which the gates were fastened.