God’s generals prepare the way for the King of kings, and DI’s language soars as he speaks of the majesty and dominion of God. What follows is of course poetry, and no poet expects his words to be taken literally. What the poetry expresses, however, is no less than this: when God completes the rescue of his bride from her exile in Babylon, his action will have cosmic significance. His method in rescuing her DI discusses only later. When in DI’s day an Eastern monarch travelled through his dominions