Isaiah 44:27
Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 8:1And God remembered Noe, and all the living creatures, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark, and brought a wind upon the earth, and the waters were abated.
Psalms 74:15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
Isaiah 42:15I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.
Isaiah 50:2Because I came, and there was not a man: I called, and there was none that would hear. Is my hand shortened and become little, that I cannot redeem? or is there no strength in me to deliver? Behold at my rebuke I will make the sea a desert, I will turn the rivers into dry land: the fishes shall rot for want of water, and shall die for thirst.
Isaiah 63:12He that brought out Moses by the right hand, by the arm of his majesty: that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name.
Jeremiah 51:32And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:22-28
Encouragement to the People of God. ( b. c. 708.) 21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. 22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. 23 Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed… Read the whole commentary →