Isaiah 30:25

Bible in Basic English

And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.

Hebrew Names Version
There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

King James Version
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

English Standard Version
And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

New American Standard Bible
And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

New Century Version
Every mountain and hill will have streams filled with water. These things will happen after many people are killed and the towers are pulled down.

Amplified Bible
On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams of water on the day of the great slaughter (the day of the LORD), when the towers fall [and all His enemies are destroyed].

World English Bible
There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And vpon euery hie mountaine, and vpon euery hie hill shal there be riuers and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.

Legacy Standard Bible
And it will be that on every lofty mountain and on every lifted up hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Berean Standard Bible
And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Contemporary English Version
On that day people will be slaughtered and towers destroyed, but streams of water will flow from high hills and towering mountains.

Complete Jewish Bible
On every high mountain and lofty hill will be streams and flowing brooks, on a day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Darby Translation
And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every hill that is lifted up, brooks [and] water-courses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Easy-to-Read Version
Every mountain and hill will have streams filled with water. These things will happen after many people are killed and the enemy's towers are pulled down.

George Lamsa Translation
And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every high hill, flowing streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.

Good News Translation
On the day when the forts of your enemies are captured and their people are killed, streams of water will flow from every mountain and every hill.

Lexham English Bible
And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill, watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.

Literal Translation
And on every high mountain, and on every high hill, shall be rivulets lifted up, streams of water, in a day of great slaying, when towers fall.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Goodly ryuers shal flowe out of all his mountaynes and hilles. In the daye of the greate slaughter when the towers shal fall,

American Standard Version
And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill streams and watercourses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

King James Version (1611)
And there shall be vpon euery high mountaine, and vpon euery high hill, riuers and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Finally, vpon euery hye mountayne and hyll shall there be riuers, and streames of waters in the day of the great slaughter when the towres fall.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.

English Revised Version
And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And strondis of rennynge watris schulen be on ech hiy munteyn, and on ech litil hil reisid, in the dai of sleyng of many men, whanne touris fallen doun.

Update Bible Version
And there shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers [and] streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

New English Translation
On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

New King James Version
There will be on every high mountain And on every high hill Rivers and streams of waters, In the day of the great slaughter, When the towers fall.

New Living Translation
In that day, when your enemies are slaughtered and the towers fall, there will be streams of water flowing down every mountain and hill.

New Life Bible
On every high mountain and on every high hill there will be rivers flowing with water in the day when many will be killed, when the towers fall.

New Revised Standard
On every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water—on a day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall there be, On every lofty mountain and On every lifted bill, Channels, Conduits of water, - In the great day of slaughter, When the towers fall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every elevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of the slaughter of many, when the tower shall fall.

Revised Standard Version
And upon every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Young's Literal Translation
And there hath been on every high mount, And on every exalted hill, Rivulets -- streams of waters, In a day of much slaughter, in the falling of towers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
On every lofty mountain and on every high hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him. ¹⁹ O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer. ²⁰ And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher: ²¹ And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go. ²² And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone! ²³ And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands. ²⁴ And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket. ²⁵ And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down. ²⁶ And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

upon every high: Isaiah 2:14, Isaiah 2:15, Isaiah 35:6, Isaiah 35:7, Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 41:19, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 43:20, Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 44:4, Ezekiel 17:22, Ezekiel 34:13, Ezekiel 34:26, John 7:38, Revelation 22:1

high: Heb. lifted up

in the day: Isaiah 34:2-10, Isaiah 37:36, Isaiah 63:1-6, Ezekiel 39:17-20, Revelation 16:1 - Revelation 19:21

when: Isaiah 32:14, Nahum 3:12, 2 Corinthians 10:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:17 - water of Joshua 6:5 - and the wall Isaiah 48:21 - they thirsted Ezekiel 38:20 - steep places Ezekiel 47:1 - waters issued Joel 3:18 - and all Revelation 7:17 - shall lead

Cross-References

Genesis 18:33
And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

Genesis 24:54
Then he and the men who were with him had food and drink, and took their rest there that night; and in the morning he got up, and said, Let me now go back to my master.

Genesis 24:56
And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.

Genesis 26:3
Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

Genesis 28:13
And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

Genesis 28:15
And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

Genesis 30:4
So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

Genesis 30:5
And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.

Genesis 30:6
Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

Genesis 30:7
And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill,.... Which were round about Jerusalem, and in other parts of Judea:

rivers [and] streams of water; such abundance of rain, that it should flow in streams like rivers, from the higher to the lower lands, and water them. This may in a spiritual sense be understood of the great plenty of the ministry of the Gospel, in all the kingdoms of the world, great and small, signified by mountains and hills; and which may also intimate the open and public ministrations of it in them,

Zechariah 14:8 or of the blessings of grace, and the graces of the Spirit, communicated everywhere; see Isaiah 41:18 John 7:38. This is applied to the times of the Messiah by the Jews g themselves, and respects the latter part of those times:

in the day of the great slaughter; not of Sennacherib's army by the angel, as many Jewish and Christian interpreters understand it; nor of the Babylonians, at the taking of Babylon by Cyrus; but of the antichristian kings, and their armies, Revelation 19:17. So the Targum paraphrases it,

"for the ruin of kings and their armies, in the day of the great slaughter;''

and a great slaughter it will be indeed:

when the towers fall; not the batteries and fortifications raised in the Assyrian camp, at the siege of Jerusalem, which fell when they were destroyed by the angel; or the great men and princes in that army, which then fell; though towers sometimes signify great persons, such as princes; see Isaiah 2:15 and so the Targum interprets it here; and may be true of the antichristian princes; for of the fall of the great city of Rome, and of other cities of the nations, with the towers thereof, is this to be understood, even of mystical, and not of literal Babylon; see Revelation 11:13.

g Bemidbar Rabba, fol. 212. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the day of the great slaughter - When the enemies of the people of God shall have been destroyed - probably in a time subsequent to the slaughter of the army of the Assyrians.

When the towers fall - The towers of the enemy; perhaps referring here to the towers of Babylon. After they should fall, the Jews would be favored with the time of prosperity to which the prophet here refers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 30:25. When the towers fall - "When the mighty fall."] מגדלים migdalim, μεγαλους, Sym.; μεγαλυνομενους, Aquila; רברבין rabrebin, Chald.; all signifying mighty sizes.