I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
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Gill's Exposition
I will open rivers in high places,.... Which is not usual; but God will change the course of nature, and work miracles, rather than his people shall want what is necessary for them; thus he opens to…
Barnes' Notes
I will open rivers - That is, I will cause rivers to flow (see the note at Isa 35:7). The allusion here is doubtless to the miraculous supply of water in the desert when the Israelites had come out of…
The scope of these verses is to silence the fears, and encourage the faith, of the servants of God in their distresses. Perhaps it is intended, in the first place, for the support of God's Israel, in…
Cambridge Bible
Cf. ch. Isa 30:25. in high places R.V. on the bare heights. The word occurs only in ch. Isa 49:9 and in Jeremiah (Isa 3:2 &c.). In Num 23:3 the text is doubtful.
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