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Jerusalem to Be Restored

Isaiah 44:27

In 11 translations

BSB
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
KJV
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
WEB
who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’
ASV
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
LSV
Who is saying to the deep, || Be dry, and your rivers I cause to dry up,
YLT
Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause to dry up,
DBY
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
DRC
Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.
GNV
He saith to the deepe, Be drye and I will drye vp thy floods.
JPS
That saith to the deep: 'Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers';
LXXE
Who says to the deep, Thou shalt be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

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Original-language editions

WLC
הָאֹמֵ֥ר לַצּוּלָ֖ה חֳרָ֑בִי וְנַהֲרֹתַ֖יִךְ אוֹבִֽישׁ׃
LXX-Br
Ὁ λέγων τῇ ἀβύσσῳ, ἐρημωθήσῃ, καὶ τοὺς ποταμούς σου ξηρανῶ·

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 51:36Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
  • Isaiah 42:15I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
  • Jeremiah 50:38A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
  • Isaiah 11:15–16The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals. There will be a…
  • Psalms 74:15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
  • Revelation 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
  • Isaiah 43:16Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea and a path through the surging waters,
  • Jeremiah 51:32The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
  • Isaiah 51:15For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of Hosts is His name.

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