27That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
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.
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)In these verses we have, I. The duty which Jacob and Israel, now in captivity, were called to, that they might be qualified and prepared for the deliverance designed them. Our first care must be to get good by our afflictions, and then we may hope to get out of them. The duty is expressed in two words: Remember and return , as in the counsel to Ephesus, Rev. 2:4 , 5 . 1. “ Remember these, O Jacob…
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