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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 11:15 - 11:15
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There shall be a second exodus, destined to eclipse even the former one from Egypt in its wonders. So the prophecies elsewhere (Psa 68:22; Exo 14:22; Zec 10:11). The same deliverance furnishes the imagery by which the return from Babylon is described (Isa 48:20, Isa 48:21).
destroy - literally, “devote,” or “doom,” that is, dry up; for what God dooms, perishes (Psa 106:9 Nah 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” (Exo 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” (Isa 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 (Rev 16:12).