Isaiah 11:15

And Yahweh, will devote to destruction, the gulf of the Egyptian sea, And will brandish his hand against the River [="Euphrates"], in the full force of his spirit,—And will smite it in the seven streams And cause a marching through in sandals,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

In Context

14But they shall fly on the wing of the Philistines in the west, Together, shall they make prey of the sons of the east,—On Edom and Moab, putting forth their hand, With the sons of Ammon hearkening unto them.

16So shall there be a highway for the remnant of his people who shall be left out of Assyria,—Like as it was to Israel, in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt!

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Cross References

Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and Yahweh carried away the sea by a mighty east wind all the night, and turned the sea into dry land,—and the waters were cloven asunder.

Exodus 14:29But the sons of Israel, had gone their way on dry ground in the saidst of the sea,—and the waters had been to them a wall, on their right hand and on their left.

Isaiah 7:20In that day, will My Lord shave, with a hired razor, even with them of the lands over the River Euphrates, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet,—yea, even the beard, will it sweep off.

Isaiah 19:16In that day, shall Egypt be like unto women,—And shall start and tremble because of the brandishing of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he is about to brandish over it.

Isaiah 51:9Awake, awake put on strength, O arm of Yahweh, Awake, As in days of old, The generations of bygone ages: Art not thou that which—Hewed down Rahab, Piercing the Crocodile?

Ezekiel 30:12And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of wicked one.—and make the land desolate with the fulness thereof, by the hand of foreigners, I, Yahweh! have spoken.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 11:11-16

Advancement of Messiah's Kingdom. ( b. c. 740.) 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he… Read the whole commentary →

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