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Isaiah 42

Isa. 42:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I will make waste
charab (Hebrew #2717)
a primitive root; to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
KJV usage: decay, (be) desolate, destroy(-er), (be) dry (up), slay, X surely, (lay, lie, make) waste.
Pronounce: khaw-rab'
Origin: or chareb {khaw-rabe'}
mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
r and hills
gib`ah (Hebrew #1389)
a hillock
KJV usage: hill, little hill.
Pronounce: ghib-aw'
Origin: feminine from the same as 1387
, and dry up
yabesh (Hebrew #3001)
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).
Pronounce: yaw-bashe'
Origin: a primitive root
all their herbs
`eseb (Hebrew #6212)
grass (or any tender shoot)
KJV usage: grass, herb.
Pronounce: eh'seb
Origin: from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green)
; and I will make
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
the rivers
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
islands
'iy (Hebrew #339)
properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island
KJV usage: country, isle, island.
Pronounce: ee
Origin: from 183
, and I will dry up
yabesh (Hebrew #3001)
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).
Pronounce: yaw-bashe'
Origin: a primitive root
the pools
'agam (Hebrew #98)
a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds
KJV usage: pond, pool, standing (water).
Pronounce: ag-am'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to collect as water)
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Isa. 2:12‑16• 12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low;
13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;
14and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up;
15and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fenced wall;
16and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery.
(Isa. 2:12‑16)
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Isa. 11:15‑16• 15And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it into seven streams, and cause [men] to march over dryshod.
16And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which will remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
(Isa. 11:15‑16)
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Isa. 44:27• 27that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers; (Isa. 44:27)
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Isa. 49:11• 11And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted. (Isa. 49:11)
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Isa. 50:2• 2Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened, that I cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because [there is] no water, and die for thirst. (Isa. 50:2)
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Psa. 18:7• 7Then the earth shaketh and trembleth,{HR}And the foundations of mountains are moved;{HR}They are shaken because he was angry. (Psa. 18:7)
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Psa. 107:33‑34• 33He turneth rivers to a wilderness,{HR}And water-springs to a thirsty ground,
34A fruitful land to saltness{HR}For the wickedness of those dwelling in it.
(Psa. 107:33‑34)
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Psa. 114:3‑7• 3The sea saw and fled,{HR}The Jordan turned back,
4The mountains skipped like rams,{HR}The hills like lambs.
5What ailed ([was] to) thee, thou (the) sea, that thou didst flee?{HR}Thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
6Ye mountains, skipped ye like rams?{HR}Ye hills like lambs?
7At the presence of the Lord tremble, O earth,{HR}At the presence of the God of Jacob,
(Psa. 114:3‑7)
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Jer. 4:24• 24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. (Jer. 4:24)
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Nah. 1:4‑6• 4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
(Nah. 1:4‑6)
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Hab. 3:6‑10• 6He stood, and made the earth tremble:
7I saw the tents of Chushan in affliction:
8Was Jehovah displeased against the rivers?
9Thy bow was made quite naked,
10The mountains saw thee, and they trembled:
(Hab. 3:6‑10)
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Hag. 2:6• 6For thus saith Jehovah of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; (Hag. 2:6)
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Zech. 10:11• 11And he shall pass through the sea of affliction, and shall smite the billows in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away. (Zech. 10:11)
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Rev. 6:12‑17• 12And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
13and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree shaken by a great wind casteth its untimely figs.
14And the heaven departed as a scroll rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15And the kings of the earth and the great men and the chiliarchs and the rich and the mighty and every bondman and freeman hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;
16and they say to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17for the great day of his wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
(Rev. 6:12‑17)
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Rev. 8:7‑12• 7And the first sounded; and there was hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast unto the earth; and the third of the earth was burnt up, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.
8And the second angel sounded; and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third of the sea became blood:
9and the third of the creatures that were in the sea that had life died; and the third of the ships were destroyed.
10And the third angel sounded; and there fell out of the heaven a great star burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third of the rivers and upon the fountains of the waters.
11And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third of the waters became wormwood; and many of the men died of the waters because they were made bitter.
12And the fourth angel sounded; and the third of the sun was smitten and the third of the moon and the third of the stars, that the third of them might be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third thereof and the night likewise.
(Rev. 8:7‑12)
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Rev. 11:13• 13And in that hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city fell, and there were slain in the earthquake seven thousand names of men: and the rest became afraid, and gave glory to the God of the heaven. (Rev. 11:13)
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Rev. 16:12,18• 12And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings that are from the east might be prepared.
18And there were lightnings and voices and thunders, and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since a man was on the earth (such an earthquake, so great.
(Rev. 16:12,18)
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Rev. 20:11• 11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. (Rev. 20:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

W. Kelly Translation

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I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.