27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.
And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet. And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.
For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.
And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.
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Commentary on Isaiah 44 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 44
God, by the prophet, goes on in this chapter, as before,
Isa 44:1-8
Two great truths are abundantly made out in these verses:-
Isa 44:9-20
Often before, God, by the prophet, had mentioned the folly and strange sottishness of idolaters; but here he enlarges upon that head, and very fully and particularly exposes them to contempt and ridicule. This discourse is intended,
Now here, for the conviction of idolaters, we have,
Isa 44:21-28
In these verses we have,