King James Version
Isaiah 42:15 in the King James Version says “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...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 42 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 42:15 · KJV
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. prevail: or, behave himself mightily
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. devour: Heb. swallow, or, sup up
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.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. straight: Heb. into straightness
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I will make waste”
H2717to parch (through drought) i.e., (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and I will dry up”
H3001to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
“and I will make”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“the rivers”
H5104a stream (including the sea; expectation the nile, euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
“islands”
H339properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island
“the pools”
H98a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds
“and I will dry up”
H3001to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
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