Isaiah 42:15
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.
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 they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
- ASV
- I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
- DARBY
- I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
- BLB
- I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and all their vegetation I will dry up; and I will turn the rivers into islands, and the pools I will dry up.
- ÅB
- Jeg vil legge fjell og hauger øde og la alle deres urter tørke bort, og jeg vil gjøre elver til land og tørke ut sjøer.
- OTB
- Jeg vil legge fjell og hauger øde og visne all deres vegetasjon; jeg vil gjøre elver til kystland og tørke ut dammene.
- B1930
- Jeg vil legge fjell og hauger øde og la alle deres urter tørke bort, og jeg vil gjøre elver til land og tørke ut sjøer.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Read in contextNahum 1:4–6
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:27
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Read in contextIsaiah 2:12–16
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
Read in contextRevelation 20:11
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Read in contextRevelation 8:7–12
The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Read in contextZechariah 10:11
And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.
Read in contextRevelation 6:12–17
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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