the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Isaiah 44:27
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It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!'And I will make your rivers dry.
"It is I who says to the depth of the sea, 'Be dried up!' And I will make your rivers dry.
He saith to the deapth, be drye, and I wyll drye vp water fluddes.
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
Who says to the deep, "Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers';
He says to the deep, Be a waste! And I will dry up your rivers!
He tells the deep waters, "Become dry! I will make your streams dry too."
who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
That saith to the deepe; Be dry, and I will drie vp thy riuers.
I saye to the grounde: be drie. And I drie vp thy water floudes.
"It is I who says to the deep, 'Be dried up!' And I will make your rivers dry.
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
that says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
I tell the deep waters, ‘Become dry! I will make your streams become dry!'
who says to the deep sea, ‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,'
I am the one who commands the sea and its streams to run dry.
I say to the deep sea, ‘Dry up! I will make your streams run dry.'
He saith to the deepe, Be drye and I will drye vp thy floods.
Who said to the deep, Be dry, and who dried up the rivers;
who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
That saith to the deep: 'Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers';
When I speak to the rivers and say, ‘Dry up!' they will be dry.
It is I Who says to the deep sea, ‘Dry up!' And I will dry up your rivers.
Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
who says to the depths of the sea, 'Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,'
who says to the deep, "Be dry— I will dry up your rivers";
Who saith to the deep - Be dry and Thy rivers, will I drain!
Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.
who says to the deep, ‘Dry up! And I will cause your rivers to dry up';
who says to the deep, ‘Be dry; I will dry up your rivers';
"I am the One who says to the depth of the sea, 'Dry up!' And I will make your rivers dry up.
With a word of command I dry up the ocean.
who says to the depths of the sea, "Be dry," and I will dry up your rivers;
and Y seie to the depthe, Be thou desolat, and Y shal make drie thi floodis;
who says to the deep, 'Be dry, I will dry up your rivers';
Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause to dry up,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Be dry: Isaiah 11:15, Isaiah 11:16, Isaiah 42:15, Isaiah 43:16, Isaiah 51:15, Psalms 74:15, Jeremiah 50:38, Jeremiah 51:32, Jeremiah 51:36, Revelation 16:12
Reciprocal: Joshua 4:22 - General Job 28:11 - bindeth Psalms 107:33 - turneth Proverbs 21:1 - as Isaiah 13:3 - commanded Ezekiel 30:12 - I will make Nahum 1:4 - and drieth
Cross-References
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
That saith to the deep, be dry,.... The Targum is,
"that saith to Babylon, be desolate;''
and most interpreters, Jewish and Christian, understand it of Babylon, which was situated in a watery place, by rivers of water, particularly the river Euphrates, and in a low valley:
and I will dry up thy rivers; some think the allusion is to the stratagem of Cyrus, made use of, under a divine direction, to drain the river Euphrates, and make it passable for his army; by which means he surprised the city of Babylon, and took it: though others think it refers to the drying up of the Red sea and the river Jordan, which are proofs of what God can do, and a periphrasis of his power.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
That saith to the deep, Be dry - Lowth supposes, that this refers to the fact that Cyrus took Babylon by diverting from their course the waters of the river Euphrates, and thus leaving the bed of the river dry, so that he could march his army under the walls of the city (see the notes at Isaiah 13:0; Isaiah 14:0) With this interpretation, also, Vitringa, John II Michaelis, Grotius, Rosenmuller, and some others, accord. Gesenius supposes that it is a description of the power of God in general; and some others have referred it to the dividing of the waters of the Red Sea when the Hebrews came out of Egypt, as in Isaiah 43:16-17. The most obvious interpretation is that of Lowth, Vitringa, etc., by which it is supposed that it refers to the drying up of the Euphrates and the streams about Babylon, when Cyrus took the city. The principal reasons for this interpretation are, first, that the entire statement in these verses has reference to the events connected with the taking of Babylon; secondly, that it is strikingly descriptive of the manner in which the city was taken by Cyrus; and thirdly, that Cyrus is expressly mentioned Isaiah 44:28, as being concerned in the transaction here referred to. The word rendered ‘deep’ (צוּלה tsûlâh) denotes properly anything sunk; the depth of the sea; an abyss. ‘But it may be applied to a deep river, and especially to the Euphrates, as a deep and mighty stream. In Jeremiah 51:36, the word ‘sea’ is applied to the Euphrates:
‘I will dry up her sea,
And make her springs dry.’
Cyrus took the city of Babylon, after having besieged it a long time in vain, by turning the waters of the river into a vast lake, forty miles square, which had been constructed in order to carry off the superfluous waters in a time of inundation. By doing this, he laid the channel of the river almost dry, and was thus enabled to enter the city above and below, under the walls, and to take it by surprise. The Septuagint renders the word ‘deep’ here by Ἀβύσσῳ Abussō - ‘Abyss.’ The Chaldee, ‘Who says to Babylon, Be desolate, and I will dry up your streams.’
I will dry up thy rivers - Referring doubtless to the numerous canals or artificial streams by which Babylon and the adjacent country were watered. These were supplied from the Euphrates, and when that was diverted from its usual bed, of course they became dry.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 44:27. That saith to the deep, Be dry - "Who saith to the deep, Be thou wasted"] Cyrus took Babylon by laying the bed of the Euphrates dry, and leading his army into the city by night through the empty channel of the river. This remarkable circumstance, in which the event so exactly corresponded with the prophecy, was also noted by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 50:38; Jeremiah 51:36.
"A drought shall be upon her waters, and they shall
be dried up: -
I will lay her sea dry
And I will scorch up her springs."
It is proper here to give some account of the means and method lay which the stratagem of Cyrus was effected.
The Euphrates in the middle of the summer, from the melting of the snows on the mountains of Armenia, like the Nile, overflows the country. In order to diminish the inundation, and to carry off the waters, two canals were made by Nebuchadnezzar a hundred miles above the city; the first on the eastern side called Naharmalca, or the Royal River, by which the Euphrates was let into the Tigris; the other on the western side, called Pallacopas, or Naharaga, (נהר אגם nahar agam, The river of the pool,) by which the redundant waters were carried into a vast lake, forty miles square, contrived, not only to lessen the inundation, but for a reservoir, with sluices, to water the barren country on the Arabian side. Cyrus, by turning the whole river into the lake by the Pallacopas, laid the channel, where it ran through the city, almost dry; so that his army entered it, both above and below, by the bed of the river, the water not reaching above the middle of the thigh. By the great quantity - of water let into the lake, the sluices and dams were destroyed; and being never repaired afterwards, the waters spread over the whole country below, and reduced it to a morass, in which the river is lost. Ingens modo et navigabilis, inde tenuis rivus, despectus emoritur; et nusquam manifesto exitit effluit, ut alii omnes, sed deficit. "And thus a navigable river has been totally lost, it having no exit from this morass. No wonder then that the geographical face of this country is completely changed;" MELA iii. 8; HEROD. i. 186, 190; XENOPHON, Cyrop. vii.; ARRIAN vii.
