Isaiah 42:15
What does Isaiah 42:15 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 42:15 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Context
v.14I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
v.15This passage
v.16And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Revelation 16:18
and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men upon the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.
- Haggai 2:6
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
- Revelation 6:12
And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
- Habakkuk 3:6
He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old.
- Isaiah 49:11
And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
- Jeremiah 4:24
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
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