Isaiah 46:11

Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

A ravenous bird from the east - Cyrus: so called on account of the rapidity of his marches from the distant regions of Persia to pounce on his prey, (see notes, ; ; ; ). The standard of Cyrus, too, was a golden eagle on a spear (see the pagan historian, Xenophon, 7, where almost the same word is used, aetos, as here, `ayit).

The man that executeth my counsel - (; .) Babylon represents, mystically, the apostate faction: the destruction of its idols symbolizes the future general extirpation of all idolatry and unbelief.

I have purposed (it), I will also do it - (.)