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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 41:17 - 41:17
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poor and needy - primarily, the exiles in Babylon.
water - figuratively, refreshment, prosperity after their affliction. The language is so constructed as only very partially to apply to the local and temporary event of the restoration from Babylon; but fully to be realized in the waters of life and of the Spirit, under the Gospel (Isa 30:25; Isa 44:3; Joh 7:37-39; Joh 4:14). God wrought no miracles that we read of, in any wilderness, during the return from Babylon.
faileth - rather, “is rigid” or parched [Horsley].