Isaiah Chapter 44 verse 27 Holy Bible
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
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Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
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that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
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That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
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who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
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Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause to dry up,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - That saith to the deep, Be dry (comp. Isaiah 42:15). "The flood" here is probably the main stream of the Euphrates, while "the rivers" are the various side streams which branched off from it and again united themselves with it. Some commentators regard the drying of Euphrates as a mere metaphor for the exhaustion and ruin of Babylon (Kay); but (with Delitzsch) I should be inclined to understand a reference to the action of Cyrus in drawing off the water of the river (see the comment on Isaiah 42:15).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) That saith to the deep--i.e., to the Euphrates. The words find a literal fulfilment in the strategical operation by which Cyrus turned the river from its usual bed into the Sepharvaim channel, and thus enabled his soldiers to cross on foot (Herod. i. 191). Symbolically the words may mean simply the destruction of the power of Babylon, of which its river was the emblem. (Comp. Revelation 16:12.)
