Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep sea, 'Be dry, and I will dry up your currents.' 1

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

In Context

26I, Yahweh, who confirmed the words of his servant and brings to pass the predictions of his messengers, 1 who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited,' and of the towns of Judah, 'They will be built again, and I will raise up their ruins'; 1

28Yahweh is the one who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, he will do my every wish; he will decree about Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt,' and about the temple, 'Let its foundations be laid.'”

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Cross References

Genesis 8:1God considered Noah, all the wild animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters started going down.

Psalms 74:15You broke open springs and streams; 1 you dried up flowing rivers. 1

Isaiah 42:15I will lay waste mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; 1 and I will turn the rivers into islands and will dry up the marshes. 1

Isaiah 50:2Why did I come but there was no one there? Why did I call but no one answered? 1 Was my hand too short to ransom you? Was there no power in me to rescue you? 1 Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert; 1 their fish die for lack of water and rot. 1

Isaiah 63:12Where is God, who made his glorious power go with the right hand of Moses, 1 and divided the water before them, to make an everlasting name for himself? 1

Jeremiah 51:32So the fords over the river are seized; the enemy is burning the reed marshes, 1 and Babylon's fighting men are confused. 1

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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