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.
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Gill's Exposition
I will make waste mountains and hills,.... Kingdoms, greater and lesser; kings and governors, as Jarchi interprets it; and so Kimchi understands it of the kings of the nations; by them are meant the…
Barnes' Notes
I will make waste mountains - This verse denotes the utter desolation which God would bring upon his foes in his anger. The meaning of this part of the verse is, that he would spread desolation over…
It comes all to one whether we make these verses (as some do) the song itself that is to be sung by the Gentile world or a prophecy of what God will do to make way for the singing of that song, that…
Cambridge Bible
Jehovah's breath of anger will make the fairest and best watered regions an arid waste. Cf. ch. Isa 40:7; Isa 40:24, and note the contrasted image in Isa 41:18 f. For herbs, read herbage. The word…
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