Isaiah 41:18

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will open rivers - That is, I will cause rivers to flow (see the note at Isaiah 35:7 ). The allusion here is doubtless to the miraculous suppl...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry (p) land spring...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh will Provide Miraculous Water and Shade in the Desert for the Returning Exiles. This continues Isaiah 41:10 . It perhaps combines metaphor...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

open rivers, &c. Note that all these physical marvels must be accomplished by the miraculous power of God, not by the spirituality of His Peopl...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. and 19. I will open rivers. He illustrates the former doctrine in a different manner, namely, that God has no need of outward and natur...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 927 CONSOLATION FOR THE DESPONDING Isaiah 41:17-18 . When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

When the poor and needy seek water— Here, according to my hypothesis, says Vitringa, is described the state of the afflicted Christian church, afte...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land spring...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Cyrus God's Agent 1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

High places] RV 'bare heights.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I will open rivers. — The words have all the emphasis of varied iteration. Every shape of the physical contour of the country, bare hills, arid ste...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 41:1-29 ; Isaiah 42:1-25 ; Isaiah 43:1-28 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 3 THE SERVANT OF THE LORD HAVING completed our survey of the fundamental truths of our prophecy, and studied the subject which forms its imm...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

What the Lord's Hand Does for the Needy Isaiah 41:17-29 Life is not easy for any of us, if we regard external conditions only; but directly we...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and forty-two. I...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Now, Reader, having given to our glorious Head the honour due unto his holy name, in having beheld him as the individual Person spoken to, in the pro...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will open rivers in high places ,.... Which is not usual; but God will change the course of nature, and work miracles, rather than his people shal...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When the poor and needy seek water , &c. When my poor people are come to the greatest extremity of danger and misery, then will I appear for the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel Encouraged. B. C. 708. 10 Fea...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In high places; upon the mountains, where by the course of nature there are no rivers. In the midst of the valleys; or, in the valleys , to wit,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God's Future Provision For His People In The Land ( Isaiah 41:17-20 ). Isaiah 41:17 ‘The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, And the...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CONSOLATION FOR THE DESPONDING Isaiah 41:17 . When the poor and needy seek water, &c. I. IN WHAT EXTREMITIES GOD HERE PROMISES TO HELP HIS P...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

God enters into a controversy with those who had fallen into the worship of idols. Isaiah 41:1 . Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the pe...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 41:1 . Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 41:8 . But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom l have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Let us, for the time being, forget the p...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:1 . Keep silence before me, oh islands. Commentators here refer us to the time of our Saviour's birth, for the isles of Chittim designat...
The Biblical Illustrator

When the poor and needy seek water An image of God’s care The thought of the caravans returning homewards through the thirsty desert suggests t...
The Biblical Illustrator

I will open rivers in high places God’s “I wills” In this verso the Lord twice says, “I will”; and in that respect this verse is in harmony wit...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION II .— RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN , AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON ( CH . 41-48.). EXP...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Lord's Promise of a Future Victory
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I will open rivers in high places, in dry rocks, as He did in the wilderness, and fountains in the midst of the valleys, so that the headsprings wi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In high places — Upon the mountains where by the course of nature there are no rivers. The dry land — Their people who are like a dry and barren wi...

¹⁸ I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 41:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 41:18