Isaiah 44:27

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;”

— ASV

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Jeremiah 50:38 "A drought is on her waters, and they will be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols."
Isaiah 42:15 "I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools."
Jeremiah 51:36 "Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry."
Isaiah 51:15 "For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name."
Revelation 16:12 "The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings tha…"
Psalms 74:15 "You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers."
Jeremiah 51:32 "So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”"
Isaiah 43:16 "Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters says:"

Commentary

Referring to the Euphrates, which was turned into a different channel, close to Babylon, by Cyrus, who thereby took the city. "The deep" is applied to Euphrates as "sea" (Jer 51:32, Jer 51:36). "Rivers" refers to the artificial canals from the Euphrates made to irrigate the country; when it was turned off into a different bed (namely, a lake, forty miles square, which was originally formed to receive the superfluous water in an inundation), the canals became dry.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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