“ That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: ”
That saith to the deep, Be dry - Lowth supposes, that this refers to the fact that Cyrus took Babylon by diverting from their course the waters of the river Euphrates, and thus leaving the bed of...
That saith to the (e) deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: (e) He shows that God's work would be no less notable in this their deliverance, than when he brought them out of Egypt, through the...
Isaiah 44:24 to Isaiah 45:8 . Yahweh's Commission to Cyrus. Yahweh reminds Israel of His power as sole Creator of the universe. What He created He still controls, so that He falsifies the predic...
the deep: i.e. the Euphrates, on which Babylon was built. I will dry up. Literally fulfilled, at the taking of Babylon, by Cyrus through his general, Gobryas. Compare Jeremiah 50:38 , &c....
27. Saying to the deep. This is generally considered to be an allegorical description of Babylon, and I certainly do not deny that it is included; but yet I cannot think of limiting it to Ba...
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: That saith to the deep, Be dry "Who saith to the deep, Be thou wasted" - Cyrus took Babylon by laying the bed of the Euphrates dry, and l...
Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer, &c.— The prophet here continues the discourse of God, after having called upon the whole creation, in the preceding verse, to praise him for the blessing of th...
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers - referring to the Euphrates, which has turned into a different chan...
The Impotence of Idols 1-23. The reproach of God's people shall be entirely removed. Jehovah the Eternal, who rules the events of history, contrasted with the futile gods of the heathen. 24-28....
That saith to the deep — i.e., to the Euphrates. The words find a literal fulfilment in the strategical operation by which Cyrus turned the river from its usual bed into the Sepharvaim channel, and...
Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 CHAPTER IX FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION Isaiah 43:1-28 - Isaiah 48:1-22 WE have now surveyed the...
the Promise of Redemption Isaiah 44:21-28 What divine comfort there is in these gracious words! Notwithstanding all their wanderings and sins, the Chosen People were Jehovah's elect race. Nothi...
The beginning of this chapter (verses Isa 44:1-5) contains the gracious promise of the outpouring of the Spirit of God, and a description of the blessing of refreshment and renewal which will come to...
Here is a renewed instance of Jehovah's claiming the distinguishing prerogative of his sovereignty; and a most blessed one it is. And when we consider the reasons for which the Lord thus reveals hims...
That saith to the deep, be dry ,.... The Targum is, "that saith to Babylon, be desolate;'' and most interpreters, Jewish and Christian, understand it of Babylon, which was situated in a watery pla...
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers: Ver. 27. That saith to the deep, Be dry, ] i.e., That will put it into the heart of Cyrus to dry up Euphrates, and so to take Babyl...
I am the Lord that maketh all things And therefore I can save thee without the help of any other gods, or any creature; that frustrateth the tokens of the liars Of the magicians and astrologers,...
Encouragement to the People of God. B. C. 708. 21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel;...
That with a word can and will dry up the sea (which in Scripture is very frequently called the deep, as Psalms 107:24 Isaiah 63:13 Jonah 2:3 , &c.) and rivers, and remove all impediments...
Yahweh Will Raise Up Cyrus To Rebuild Jerusalem And Lay The Foundations of A New Temple ( Isaiah 44:24 to Isaiah 45:13 ). In the Near East of Isaiah's day there were not many major powers. Egypt...
This evening, we will read two Chapter s from Isaiah's prophecy, the forty-fourth and the fifty-fifth, and a few verses from the twenty-third chapter of the second Book of Samuel. May the Lord bless...
Isaiah 44:5 . Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord. This phrase is somewhat obscure; it is not said whether they signed a covenant, or imprinted some mark on their hand. The latter...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 44:1-23 A PROPHECY OF ISRAEL 'S SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND REGENERATION . This section is closely connected with Isaiah 43:1-23 ; of which it ought to form the co...
The Promise to have Jerusalem Rebuilt This section, according to a careful analysis, belongs to the next chapter, for it takes up the deliverance of Israel as effected in consequence of the decree o...
Isaiah 11:15 ; Isaiah 11:16 ; Isaiah 42:15 ; Isaiah 43:16 ; Isaiah 51:15 ; Jeremiah 50:38 ; Jeremiah 51:32 ; Jeremiah 51:36 ; Psalms 74:15 ; Revelation 16:12
That saith — That with a word can dry up the sea and rivers, and remove all impediments.