An Appeal to Yahweh to Display His Might as of Old. Let Yahweh's strong arm manifest its power as it did in slaying the dragon Rahab, the personification of the mighty deep regarded as the power of Chaos (Job 9:13 *). This thought naturally suggests another work of Yahweh's arm, the drying up of the Red Sea, the more easily that Rahab was an emblem for Egypt (cf. Isaiah 30:7 *).
Isaiah 51:10. great deep: this expression makes it clear that the reference to the Exodus begins only with the following words.
Isaiah 51:11. A scribe's quotation from Isaiah 35:10.