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’s jealousy will vanish, and Judah’s opponents will come to an end. Ephraim won’t be jealous of Judah, and Judah won’t oppose Ephraim. 14They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia in the west. Together they will loot the people of the east. They will conquer Edom and Moab. The people of Ammon will be subject to them. The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian Sea. He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River with his scorching wind and divide it into seven streams so that people can walk over it in their sandals. 16There will be a highway for the remaining few of his people left in Assyria like there was for Israel when it came out of 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 50:2Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Don’t I have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.
• Isaiah 51:9Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Lord! Wake up as you did in days long past, as in generations long ago. Didn’t you cut Rahab into pieces and stab the serpent?
• Zechariah 10:11The Lord will pass through a sea of distress, strike the waves in the sea, and dry up all the deep places of the Nile River. The pride of Assyria will be humiliated, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
• Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. All that night the Lord pushed back the sea with a strong east wind and turned the sea into dry ground. The water divided,
• Isaiah 19:16At that time Egyptians will act like women. They will tremble and be terrified because the Lord of Armies will shake his fist at them.
• Isaiah 19:5The water in the Nile River will be dried up, and the river will be dry and empty.
• Exodus 7:19The Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—its rivers, canals, ponds, and all its reservoirs—so that they turn into blood. There will be blood everywhere in Egypt, even in the wooden and stone containers.’ ”
• Psalms 74:13You stirred up the sea with your own strength. You smashed the heads of sea monsters in the water.
• Ezekiel 29:10That is why I’m against you and the Nile River. I will turn Egypt into a pile of rubble. It will become a wasteland, from Migdol to Syene, all the way to the border of Sudan.
• Ezekiel 30:12I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked people. I will have foreigners destroy the land and everything in it. I, the Lord, have spoken.
• Revelation 16:12The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River. The water in the river dried up to make a road for the kings from the east.

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

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