Ésaïe 44:3

Louis Segond

Car je répandrai des eaux sur le sol altéré, Et des ruisseaux sur la terre desséchée; Je répandrai mon esprit sur ta race, Et ma bénédiction sur tes rejetons.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Car je r�pandrai des eaux sur celui qui est alt�r�, et des rivi�res sur la [terre] s�che; je r�pandrai mon esprit sur ta post�rit�, et ma b�n�diction sur ceux qui sortiront de toi.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Car je r�pandrai des eaux sur le sol alt�r�, et des ruisseaux sur la terre s�che; je r�pandrai mon Esprit sur ta post�rit�, et ma b�n�diction sur ceux qui sortiront de toi.

Darby's French Translation
Car je verserai de l'eau sur celui qui a soif, et des ruisseaux d'eau sur la terre s�che; je verserai mon Esprit sur ta semence, et ma b�n�diction sur ceux qui sortent de toi;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pour water: Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 59:21, Ezekiel 34:26, Joel 3:18, John 7:37-39, Revelation 21:6, Revelation 22:17

floods: Isaiah 32:2, Isaiah 35:6, Isaiah 35:7, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 43:20, Isaiah 48:21, Isaiah 49:10, Psalms 78:15, Psalms 78:16, Psalms 107:35

dry ground: Psalms 63:1, Matthew 12:43, Greek

pour my: Isaiah 32:15, Isaiah 59:21, Proverbs 1:23, Ezekiel 39:29, Joel 2:28, Zechariah 12:10, Acts 2:17, Acts 2:33, Acts 2:39, Acts 10:45, Titus 3:5, Titus 3:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 40:14 - General Leviticus 2:4 - wafers Numbers 11:17 - I will take Judges 15:19 - there came 2 Samuel 23:15 - longed Psalms 22:31 - They Psalms 69:36 - The seed Psalms 72:16 - of the city Psalms 144:12 - as plants Psalms 147:13 - blessed Isaiah 30:25 - upon every high Isaiah 41:18 - General Isaiah 45:8 - Drop down Isaiah 45:23 - every tongue Isaiah 61:9 - their seed Ezekiel 36:27 - I will Ezekiel 47:8 - and go down Hosea 6:3 - as the rain Hosea 10:12 - rain Hosea 14:5 - as the dew Micah 5:7 - as a dew Zechariah 10:1 - and give Matthew 3:11 - he shall Matthew 5:6 - for Mark 1:8 - he shall Luke 3:16 - he shall Luke 6:21 - for ye shall be Luke 11:13 - give the Luke 11:24 - dry Luke 24:49 - I send John 3:5 - born John 4:10 - living John 7:38 - out John 7:39 - this spake Acts 2:38 - and ye Acts 5:14 - believers Acts 11:16 - but Romans 5:5 - shed 1 Corinthians 12:13 - by 2 Corinthians 3:8 - the ministration 2 Corinthians 8:5 - first Galatians 3:14 - might Galatians 4:6 - crying Hebrews 6:7 - receiveth 1 Peter 1:12 - sent

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I will pour water oh him that is thirsty,.... Or rather upon the thirsty land, as the Targum; and so the Syriac version, "in a thirsty place"; as a dry land is a thirsty land; it thirsts for water, gapes and opens for it: see Psalms 63:1 "and floods upon the dry ground"; large quantities of rain to moisten it, and make it fruitful; these figurative expressions are explained in the next clauses:

I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring; by which "seed" and "offspring" are meant the spiritual seed of this remnant or little church of Christ among the Jews, in the first times of the Gospel: such as should be regenerated and converted in it, and who are signified by the "dry" and "thirsty" ground; for being made sensible of their desolate condition, their barrenness and unfruitfulness, they hungered and thirsted after righteousness; were desirous of Christ and his grace, and more knowledge of him, and eagerly sought after them; and to these are promised the Spirit, and his gifts and graces, compared to water, for its purifying, softening, fructifying, and refreshing nature, and for extinguishing thirst, and giving a real pleasure and delight; see Ezekiel 36:25 and the abundance thereof is signified by "floods" of water; for in first conversion especially, there is an abounding, yea a superabounding of the grace of God; it is a well of living water; yea, out of the believer flow rivers of living water, John 4:14 and this grace of the Spirit is always a blessing: and indeed all the blessings of grace go along with it, as to the manifestation and application of them as justification, pardon of sin, adoption, c. here perhaps a more special regard is had to the extraordinary effusion of the Spirit, on the day of Pentecost, when the apostles of Christ being furnished with his gifts and graces, were fitted to go forth with the "fullness of the blessing" of the Gospel of Christ. The Targum of the whole is,

"for as waters are given upon the thirsty land, and they flow upon the dry land, so will I give my Holy Spirit on thy children, and my blessing upon thy children's children;''

a succession of converts in the Christian church.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I will pour water - Floods, rivers, streams, and waters, are often used in the Scriptures, and especially in Isaiah, to denote plenteous divine blessings, particularly the abundant influences of the Holy Spirit (see the note at Isaiah 35:6-7). That it here refers to the Holy Spirit and his influences, is proved by the parallel expressions in the subsequent part of the verse.

Upon him that is thirsty - Or rather, ‘on the thirsty land.’ The word צמא tsâmē' refers here rather to land, and the figure is taken from a burning sandy desert, where waters would be made to burst out in copious streams (see Isaiah 35:6-7). The sense is, that God would bestow blessings upon them as signal and marvelous, as if floods of waters were made to descend on the dry, parched, and desolated earth.

And floods - The word נוזלים nôzelı̂ym, from נזל nâzal, “to flow,” to run as liquids, means properly flowings, and is used for streams and rivers Exodus 15:8; Psalms 78:16; Proverbs 5:15; Jeremiah 18:0 It means here that the spiritual influences which would descend on the afflicted, desolate, comfortless, and exiled people, would be like torrents of rain poured on the thirsty earth. This beautiful figure is common in the Scriptures:

He shall come down like rain upon the grass,

And as showers that water the earth.

Psalms 72:6

My doctrine shall drop as the rain

My speech shall distil as the dew

As the small rain upon the tender herb,

And as the showers upon the grass.

Deuteronomy 32:2

I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed - (See Isaiah 59:21). This is in accordance with the promises everywhere made in he Bible to the people of God (see Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:7-8; Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 7:9; Psalms 89:4; Isaiah 43:5). It may be regarded, first, as a promise of the richest blessings to them as parents - since there is to a parent’s heart no prospect so consoling as that which relates to his offspring; and, secondly, as an assurance of the perpetuity of their religion; of their return from captivity, and their restoration to their own land.