27 That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
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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,