Isaiah 42:15
I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. And I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
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Psalms 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken because he was angry.
Psalms 114:3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
Isaiah 11:15And LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea. And with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dry shod.
Isaiah 49:11And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
Jeremiah 4:24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 42:14-18
Judgment and Mercy. ( b. c. 708.) 13 The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. 16 And I will bring the blind by a way that… Read the whole commentary →