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Isaiah 51:10

8 For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”

9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

11 So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

12 “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

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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.

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BSB
Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
KJV
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
WEB
Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
ASV
Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
DARBY
Is it not thou that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
BLB
[Was] it not You drying up the Sea, the waters of the great deep, [who] has made the depths of the sea [as] a pathway for the redeemed to pass over?
ÅB
Var det ikke du som tørket ut havet, vannet i det store dyp, som gjorde havets bunn til en vei, så det frelste folk kunne gå gjennom det?
OTB
Var det ikke du som tørket opp havet, vannene i det store dypet, som gjorde havets dyp til en vei for de forløste å krysse over?
B1930
Var det ikke du som tørket ut havet, vannet i det store dyp, som gjorde havets bunn til en vei, så det frelste folk kunde gå gjennem det?

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 43:16

    Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,

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  • Isaiah 63:11–12

    Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

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  • Isaiah 50:2

    Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

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  • Exodus 15:13

    With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

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  • Exodus 14:21–22

    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

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  • Isaiah 42:15

    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.

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  • Psalms 74:13

    You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

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