以赛亚书 41:18

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我要在光禿的高處開闢江河，在山谷之間開闢泉源；我要使曠野變為水池，使乾地變成水泉。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 要 在 净 光 的 高 处 开 江 河 ， 在 谷 中 开 泉 源 ； 我 要 使 沙 漠 变 为 水 池 ， 使 乾 地 变 为 涌 泉 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So don't worry, because I am with you. Don't be afraid, because I am your God. I will make you strong and will help you; I will support you with my right hand that saves you. ¹¹ "All those people who are angry with you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who are against you will disappear and be lost. ¹² You will look for your enemies, but you will not find them. Those who fought against you will vanish completely. ¹³ I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, and I tell you, ‘Don't be afraid. I will help you.' ¹⁴ You few people of Israel who are left, do not be afraid even though you are weak as a worm. I myself will help you," says the Lord . "The one who saves you is the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁵ Look, I have made you like a new threshing board with many sharp teeth. So you will walk on mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like chaff. ¹⁶ You will throw them into the air, and the wind will carry them away; a windstorm will scatter them. Then you will be happy in the Lord ; you will be proud of the Holy One of Israel. ¹⁷ "The poor and needy people look for water, but they can't find any. Their tongues are dry with thirst. But I, the Lord , will answer their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not leave them to die. ¹⁸ I will make rivers flow on the dry hills and springs flow through the valleys. I will change the desert into a lake of water and the dry land into fountains of water. ¹⁹ I will make trees grow in the desert— cedars, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees. I will put pine, fir, and cypress trees growing together in the desert.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 12:3, Isaiah 30:25, Isaiah 32:2, Isaiah 35:6, Isaiah 35:7, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 43:20, Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 48:21, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 49:10, Isaiah 58:11, Psalms 46:4, Psalms 78:15, Psalms 78:16, Psalms 105:41, Psalms 107:35, Ezekiel 47:1-8, Joel 3:18, Zechariah 14:8, Revelation 7:17, Revelation 22:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:17 - water of Exodus 17:6 - that the people Numbers 20:8 - bring forth Numbers 21:16 - Gather Judges 15:19 - Enhakkore 2 Kings 3:17 - Ye shall not Nehemiah 9:20 - gavest Job 38:26 - on the wilderness Psalms 63:1 - General Psalms 104:10 - He sendeth Psalms 107:6 - Then Psalms 126:4 - as the streams Isaiah 29:19 - the poor Isaiah 42:11 - Let the wilderness Isaiah 51:3 - make Isaiah 55:1 - every Amos 4:8 - two Matthew 12:43 - dry Luke 16:24 - in water John 4:10 - living John 7:37 - If 1 Corinthians 12:13 - to drink

Cross-References

Genesis 41:1
Two years later the king dreamed he was standing on the bank of the Nile River.

Genesis 41:3
Then seven more cows came up out of the river, but they were thin and ugly. They stood beside the seven beautiful cows on the bank of the Nile.

Jeremiah 24:5
"This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘I sent the people of Judah out of their country to live in the country of Babylon. I think of those people as good, like these good figs.

Jeremiah 24:8
"‘But the bad figs are too rotten to eat.' So this is what the Lord says: ‘Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and all the people from Jerusalem who are left alive, even those who live in Egypt, will be like those rotten figs.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 them his everlasting and unchangeable love, and makes it manifest, and shows it to them, and their interest in it, which is a broad river, that cannot be passed over; this is in high places, it flows from the throne of God, and of the Lamb; and of this river of pleasure he makes his people to drink, the streams whereof make glad the city of our God; likewise the fulness of grace in his Son, whose grace is as rivers of water in a dry land, exceeding abundant, and very refreshing; also the graces of his Spirit, which he gives in great abundance, and are those rivers of water he causes to flow forth from them that believe in Christ, in the comfortable exercise of them; see

Psalms 36:8,

and fountains in the midst of the valleys; God himself is the fountain of life, and of living waters; Christ is the fountain of gardens, and in him are wells of salvation; the grace of the Spirit is a well of living water, springing up unto eternal life; and of these, humble souls, comparable to the lowly valleys, are partakers,

Psalms 36:9:

I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water; respecting either the Gentile world, which was like a wilderness and dry land before the Gospel came into it, but by that was watered and made fruitful; or the state and case of the people of God being in a wilderness condition, when the Lord takes notice of them, and supplies them with everything necessary, so that they are like a watered garden, whose springs fail not, Revelation 12:14. This passage is applied by the Jews to the times of the Messiah w.

w Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 1. 4. fol. 212. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will open rivers - That is, I will cause rivers to flow (see the note at Isaiah 35:7). The allusion here is doubtless to the miraculous supply of water in the desert when the Israelites had come out of Egypt. God then supplied their needs; and in a similar manner he would always meet his people, and would supply their needs as if rivers of pure water were made to flow from dry and barren hills.

In high places - The word used here denotes properly barrenness or nakedness Job 33:21; and then a hill that is bare, or destitute of trees. It is applied usually to hills in a desert Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 3:21; Jeremiah 4:11; Jeremiah 7:29; Jeremiah 14:6. Such hills, without trees, and in a dry and lonely desert, were of course usually without water. The idea is, that God would refresh them as if rivers were made to flow from such hills; and it may not improperly be regarded as a promise that God would meet and bless his people in situations, and from sources where they least expected refreshment and comfort.

And fountains in the midst of the valleys - (See Isaiah 30:25, note; Isaiah 35:6, note).

I will make the wilderness - (See the note at Isaiah 35:7).