27 Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause to dry up,
I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.
A sword `is' on her waters, and they have been dried up, For it `is' a land of graven images, And in idols they do boast themselves.
Thou hast cleaved a fountain and a stream, Thou hast dried up perennial flowings.
And Jehovah hath devoted to destruction The tongue of the sea of Egypt, And hath waved His hand over the river, In the terror of his wind, And hath smitten it at the seven streams, And hath caused `men' to tread `it' with shoes. And there hath been a highway, For the remnant of His people that is left, from Asshur, As there was for Israel in the day of his coming up out of the land of Egypt!
And I `am' Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts `is' His name.
And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.
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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,