Isaiah 11:15

Isaiah 11:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that anyone can cross over in sandals.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt; With His mighty wind He will shake His fist over the River, And strike it in the seven streams, And make men cross over dry-shod.

Context of Isaiah 11:15

13Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah. Judah will no longer be Ephraim's enemy. 14But they will join together to attack the Philistines in the west. They will also attack the nations to the east of Israel. They will take their valuable things for themselves. They will win against the people of Edom and Moab. They will rule over the Ammonites. The Lord will make the Sea of Egypt become dry. He will lift up his hand and he will send a strong wind to divide the Euphrates river. The river will become seven small streams. Then people can walk across it easily. 16There will be a good road that comes from Assyria. The Lord's people who remain will travel back home on it. It will be like the road that Israel's people travelled on when they left Egypt.

Isaiah 11:15 word by word

וְהֶחֱרִ֣ים יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֚ת לְשׁ֣וֹן יָם־מִצְרַ֔יִם וְהֵנִ֥יף יָד֛וֹ עַל־הַנָּהָ֖ר בַּעְיָ֣ם רוּח֑וֹ וְהִכָּ֙הוּ֙ לְשִׁבְעָ֣ה נְחָלִ֔ים וְהִדְרִ֖יךְ בַּנְּעָלִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• shall utterly destroyחָרַםchâram · to devote/destroyH2763
• the tongueלָשׁוֹןlâshôn lâshôn leshônâh · tongue: barH3956
• of the Egyptianמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · (Sea of) EgyptH4714
• seaיָםyâm · seaH3220
• and with his mightyעֲיָם‛ăyâm · heatH5868
• windרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
• shall he shakeנוּףnûph · to waveH5130
• his handיָדyâd · handH3027
• over the riverנָהָרnâhâr · RiverH5104
• and shall smiteנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• it in the sevenשֶׁ֫בַעsheba‛ shib‛âh · sevenH7651
• streamsנַ֫חַלnachal nachlâh nachălâh · torrent: riverH5158
• go overדָּרַךְdârak · to treadH1869
• dryshodנַ֫עַלna‛al na‛ălâh · sandalH5275

Cross-references for Isaiah 11:15

• Isaiah 50:2Nobody was there to meet me, when I came to help you. When I called out to you, nobody answered me. Do you think that my arm is too weak to rescue you? Am I not strong enough to save you? Look! I can speak to the sea so that it becomes dry! I can cause rivers to become deserts. Then the fish die because they have no water.
• Isaiah 51:9Wake up, Lord! Get ready to show your strength! Do great things, as you did in past days, when our ancestors were alive. Remember how you cut the monster, Rahab, into pieces.
• Zechariah 10:11And he will come to the difficult sea. But it will be no trouble to him. He will stop the waves in the sea. He will make the river Nile dry. Proud Assyria will have nothing to be proud about and the power of Egypt's people will finish.’
• Exodus 14:21Then Moses lifted up his hand over the sea. During that whole night, the Lord made a strong wind blow from the east. This caused the sea to become two separate parts. The ground between the water became dry land.
• Isaiah 19:16At that time, the Egyptians will be weak, like women. They will shake with fear because the Lord Almighty is ready to punish them.
• Isaiah 19:5The water of the sea will become dry. The Nile river will also become dry and it will have no water in it.
• Exodus 7:19Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Say to Aaron, “Take your stick. Lift up your hand over the waters of Egypt. Lift your stick up over their rivers and their streams. Lift it up over their lakes and pools of water. Do that so that all the water becomes blood.” There will be blood in every part of Egypt. There will even be blood in their buckets and bowls.’
• Psalms 74:13You broke the sea into separate pieces, because you are so strong. You broke the heads of the monsters in the waters of the sea.
• Ezekiel 29:10Because of that, I have become the enemy of you and your streams. I will destroy the land of Egypt. It will be an empty place, and its buildings will become heaps of stones. I will do that everywhere, from Migdol to Aswan and as far as Ethiopia's border.
• Ezekiel 30:12I will cause the Nile river to become dry. I will put the land under the power of evil men. Foreigners will destroy the land of Egypt and everything that is in it. That is what I, the Lord, say.
• Revelation 16:12Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates river. As a result, the river became dry. This prepared a way for kings from the east to march across it.

Commentaries on Isaiah 11:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15The Lord - shall smite it in the seven streams "Smite with a drought" - The Chaldee reads החריב hecherib ; and so perhaps the Septuagint, who have , the word by which they commonly render it. Vulg. desolabit; "shall desolate." The Septuagint, Vulgate, and Chaldee read הדריכהו hidrichahu, "shall make it passable," adding the pronoun, which is necessary: but this reading is not confirmed by any MS. Here is a plain allusion to the passage of the Red Sea. And…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15And the Lord - The prophet goes on with the description of the effect which shall follow the return of the scattered Jews to God. The language is figurative, and is here drawn from that which was the great storehouse of all the imagery of the Jews - the deliverance of their fathers from the bondage of Egypt. The general sense is, that all the embarrassments which would tend to impede them would be removed; and that God would make their return as easy and…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-16Verses 10-16 When the gospel should be publicly preached, the Gentiles would seek Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, and find rest of soul. When God's time is come for the deliverance of his people, mountains of opposition shall become plains before him. God can soon turn gloomy days into glorious ones. And while we expect the Lord to gather his ancient people, and bring them home to his church, also to bring in the fulness of the Gentiles, when all…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-16Isaiah used images from Israel's past exodus to encourage his listeners. He promised that God would lead his people out of Assyria just as he led them out of Egypt (Exodus 14:29–15:18; see also Revelation 16:12).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. There shall be a second exodus, destined to eclipse even the former one from Egypt in its wonders. So the prophecies elsewhere (Psa 68:22; Ex 14:22; Zec 10:11). The same deliverance furnishes the imagery by which the return from Babylon is described (Is 48:20, 21). destroy--literally, "devote," or "doom," that is, dry up; for what God dooms, perishes (Psa 106:9 Na 1:4). tongue--the Bubastic branch of the Nile [Vitringa]; but as the Nile was not the…Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 11:15

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In the dictionaries

• Egyptian
• Egypt, Egyptian
• Euphrates River, the River
• Bay
• Dryshod
• Equity
• Hole
• Red Sea
• Rest
• Canon of the Old Testament

Commentaries on Isaiah 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings