Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains, and hills, And all their vegetation, will I wither,—And I will make rivers to be shores, And lakes, will I dry up:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 held my peace from age-past times, I kept still, I restrained myself,—As a travailing woman, I pant, I breathe hard and gasp, all at once!

16Thus will I lead the blind, by a way they know not, In paths they know not, will I guide them,—I will make the place that was dark before them to be, light. And crooked ways, to be, straight, These things, have I done unto them, And have not forsaken them.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:7Then did the earth shake and quake, Even, the foundations of the mountains, were deeply moved, Yea they did shake, because he was angry.

Psalms 114:3The sea, beheld, and fled, The Jordan, turned back;

Isaiah 11:15And 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,

Isaiah 49:11Then will I make of all my mountains, a road, And my highways, shall be upraised.

Jeremiah 4:24I beheld, The mountains, and lo! they were trembling,—And all the hills, had been violently moved:

Nahum 1:4Who rebuketh the sea and hath made it dry, and, all the streams, hath he dried up,—withered are Bashan and Carmel, Even the bloom of Lebanon, is withered:

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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