Isaiah 44:3
For I pour waters on a thirsty one, || And floods on a dry land, || I pour My Spirit on your seed, || And My blessing on your offspring.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
4And they have sprung up as among grass, || As willows by conduits of water.
Cross References
Psalms 78:15He cleaves rocks in a wilderness, || And gives drink—as the great deep.
Proverbs 1:23Turn back at my reproof, behold, || I pour forth my spirit to you, || I make known my words with you.
Isaiah 32:2And each has been as a hiding place [from] wind, || And as a secret hiding place [from] inundation, || As streams of waters in a dry place, || As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.
Isaiah 35:6Then the lame leap as a deer, || And the tongue of the mute sings, || For waters have been broken up in a wilderness, || And streams in a desert.
Isaiah 41:17The poor and the needy are seeking water, || And there is none, || Their tongue has failed with thirst, || I, YHWH, answer them, || The God of Israel—I do not forsake them.
Isaiah 48:21And they have not thirsted in wastelands, || He has caused them to go on, || He has caused waters from a rock to flow to them, || Indeed, he cleaves a rock, and waters flow.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 44:2-9
Prosperity Foretold; The Supremacy of God. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: 2 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water… Read the whole commentary →