Isaiah 42:15

I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear? I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze and wither at once.

16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:7His going forth is from the extremity of heaven, 1 And his circuit to the other end of heaven: 1 And no one shall be hidden from his heat. 1

Psalms 114:3The pangs of death compassed me; 1 The dangers of hell found me: 1 I found affliction and sorrow. 1

Isaiah 11:15And the Lord shall make desolate the Sea of Egypt; and he shall lay his hand on the river with a strong wind, and he shall smite the seven channels, so that men shall pass through it dry-shod.

Isaiah 49:11And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them.

Jeremiah 4:24I beheld the mountains, and they trembled, and I saw all the hills in commotion.

Nahum 1:4He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Bashan, and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing trees of Lebanon have come to nought.

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 →

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