Isaiah 44:27

Who is saying to the deep, || Be dry, and your rivers I cause to dry up,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

In Context

26Confirming the word of His servant, || He perfects the counsel of His messengers, || Who is saying of Jerusalem, || She is inhabited, || And of cities of Judah, || They will be built, and her ruins I raise up,

28Who is saying of Cyrus, My shepherd, || And he perfects all My delight, || So as to say of Jerusalem, You are built, || And of the temple, You are founded.”

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Cross References

Genesis 8:1And God remembers Noah, and every living thing, and all the livestock which [are] with him in the Ark, and God causes a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

Psalms 74:15You have cleaved a fountain and a stream, || You have dried up perennial flowings.

Isaiah 42:15I make desolate mountains and hills, || And I dry up all their herbs, || And I have made rivers become islands, || And I dry up ponds.

Isaiah 50:2Why have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, || Has My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not power in Me to deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, || I make rivers a wilderness, || Their fish stink, for there is no water, || And die with thirst.

Isaiah 63:12Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, || Cleaving waters from before them, || To make to Himself a continuous Name.

Jeremiah 51:32And the passages have been captured, || And they have burned the reeds with fire, || And the men of war have been troubled.

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 →

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