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Isaiah 42:15

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.

KJV

Desertos faciam montes et colles, et omne gramen eorum exsiccabo ; et ponam flumina in insulas, et stagna arefaciam.

Vulgate

ἐρημώσω ὄρη καὶ βουνούς, καὶ πάντα χόρτον αὐτῶν ξηρανῶ καὶ θήσω ποταμοὺς εἰς νήσους, καὶ ἕλη ξηρανῶ.

LXX

I 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.

ASV

אַחֲרִ֤יב הָרִים֙ וּ/גְבָע֔וֹת וְ/כָל עֶשְׂבָּ֖/ם אוֹבִ֑ישׁ וְ/שַׂמְתִּ֤י נְהָרוֹת֙ לָֽ/אִיִּ֔ים וַ/אֲגַמִּ֖ים אוֹבִֽישׁ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲגַם
'gm
noun · 9×
אִיִּ֖ים
'yym
noun · 36×
גְּבָע֖וֹת
gb'vt
noun · 70×
הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ
hchrybv
verb · 42×
הַ֣ר
hr
noun · 544×
הֹבִ֥ישׁ
hbysh
verb · 73×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נְהַר
nhr
noun · 119×
עֵ֣שֶׂב
'shb
noun · 33×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Isa 2:12 — For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
  • Isa 24:1 — Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
  • Isa 40:4 — Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
  • Isa 44:27 — That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
  • Isa 44:27 — That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
  • Isa 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
  • Isa 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
  • John 12:46 — I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
  • Nah 1:4 — He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
  • Ps 107:33 — He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
  • Rev 16:12 — And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
  • Rev 20:11 — And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.