Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
There shall be a second exodus, destined to eclipse even the former one from Egypt in its wonders. So the prophecies elsewhere (Psalms 68:22; Exodus 14:22; Zechariah 10:11). The same deliverance furnishes the imagery by which the return from Babylon is described (Isaiah 48:20-21).
destroy--literally, "devote," or "doom," that is, dry up; for what God dooms, perishes (Psalms 106:9 Nahum 1:4).
tongue--the Bubastic branch of the Nile [VITRINGA]; but as the Nile was not the obstruction to the exodus, it is rather the west tongue or Heroöpolite fork of the Red Sea.
with . . . mighty wind--such as the "strong east wind" (Exodus 14:21), by which God made a way for Israel through the Red Sea. The Hebrew for "mighty" means terrible. MAURER translates, "With the terror of His anger"; that is, His terrible anger.
in the seven streams--rather, "shall smite it (divide it by smiting) into seven (many) streams, so as to be easily crossed" [LOWTH]. So Cyrus divided the river Gyndes, which retarded his march against Babylon, into three hundred sixty streams, so that even a woman could cross it [HERODOTUS, 1.189]. "The river" is the Euphrates, the obstruction to Israel's return "from Assyria" (Isaiah 11:16), a type of all future impediments to the restoration of the Jews.
dry shod--Hebrew, "in shoes." Even in sandals they should be able to pass over the once mighty river without being wet (Revelation 16:12).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 11:9
Isaiah 19:16
Isaiah 21:1
Isaiah 43:19
Isaiah 50:2
Isaiah 51:11
Isaiah 65:8
Hosea 2:15
Hosea 11:10
Micah 7:12
Zechariah 2:9
Zechariah 10:11
Revelation 16:12
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