Isaiah 48:21

And they thirsted not 1 when He led them through the deserts; 1 He caused the mayim to flow out of the Tzur for them; 1 He split the Tzur, 1 and the mayim gushed out. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

In Context

20Go ye forth of Babylon, 1 flee ye from the Kasdim (Chaldeans), 1 with a voice of joyful singing 1 declare ye, preach this, 1 send it forth even to the ketzeh ha'aretz; 1 say ye: Hashem hath redeemed His Eved Ya'akov. 1

22There is no shalom, saith Hashem, 1 unto the resha'im.

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Cross References

Numbers 20:11And Moshe lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice; and the mayim came out abundantly, and the Edah drank, and their beasts also.

Nehemiah 9:20Thou gavest also Thy Ruach HaTovah to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them mayim for their thirst.

Psalms 78:20Behold, He struck the Tzur, that the mayim gushed out, 1 and the streams overflowed; 1 can He give lechem also? 1 Can He provide meat for His people? 1

Isaiah 30:25And there shall be upon every high har, and upon every soaring hill, springs and streams of mayim in the day of the great slaughter, when the migdalim (towers) fall.

Isaiah 41:17When the aniyim and evyonim seek mayim, and there is none, 1 and their leshon faileth for tzama (thirst), 1 I Hashem will hear them, 1 I the Elohei Yisroel will not forsake them. 1

Isaiah 43:20The animal of the wild shall honor Me, 1 the jackals and the ostriches; 1 because I give mayim in the midbar, 1 and neharot in the desert, 1 to give drink to My People, My Bachir. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:17-22

Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 16 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God , and his Spirit, hath sent me. 17 Thus saith the Lord , thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of… Read the whole commentary →

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