I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come from the rising of the sun: he shall call upon my name, and he shall make princes to be as dirt, and as the potter treading clay.
Ibn Ezra
העירותי I have raised. The Pathah under ה is caused by the ע which follows. From the north, Elam was north-east of Babylon. The word איש a man must be supplied : I have raised up a man from the north; Cyrus is meant. ויאת And he came. It is an irregular form, because of the first and third radical (א and ה) being weak letters; it would have been of the form וַיׅפֶן, but the א being silent, the Hirek under י is changed into Pathah as is usually the case with gutturals; ויאת is Kal. And he shall come upon princes, etc. He shall come into the land or the camp of princes, and tread upon them, as upon mortar.
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