Isaiah 30:25

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 So the Lord is waiting to show his mercy to you. He wants to rise and comfort you. The Lord is the God who does the right thing, so he will bless everyone who waits for his help. ¹⁹ You people who live in Jerusalem on Mount Zion will not continue crying. The Lord will hear your crying, and he will comfort you. When he hears you, he will help you. ²⁰ The Lord might give you sorrow and pain like the bread and water you eat every day. But God is your teacher, and he will not continue to hide from you. You will see your teacher with your own eyes. ²¹ If you wander from the right path, either to the right or to the left, you will hear a voice behind you saying, "You should go this way. Here is the right way." ²² Then you will take your idols covered with gold and silver and make them unfit to be used again. You will throw them away like filthy rags and say, "Go away!" ²³ At that time the Lord will send you rain. You will plant seeds, and the ground will grow food for you. You will have a very large harvest. You will have plenty of food in the fields for your animals. There will be large fields for your sheep. ²⁴ Your cattle and donkeys will have all the food they need. There will be much food. You will have to use shovels and pitchforks to spread all the food for your animals to eat. ²⁵ 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. ²⁶ At that time the light from the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light from the sun will be seven times brighter than it is now. One day of sunlight will be like a whole week's worth. This will happen when the Lord bandages his broken people and heals the hurts from their beatings.

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
The Lord finished speaking to Abraham and left. Then Abraham went back home.

Genesis 24:54
Then he and his men had something to eat and drink, and they spent the night there. Early the next morning they got up and the servant said, "Now we must go back to my master."

Genesis 24:56
But the servant said to them, "Don't make me wait. The Lord has made my trip successful. Now let me go back to my master."

Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land, and I will be with you. I will bless you. I will give you and your family all these lands. I will do what I promised to Abraham your father.

Genesis 28:13
And then Jacob saw the Lord standing by the ladder. He said, "I am the Lord , the God of your grandfather Abraham. I am the God of Isaac. I will give you the land that you are lying on now. I will give this land to you and to your children.

Genesis 28:15
"I am with you, and I will protect you everywhere you go. I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised."

Genesis 30:4
So Rachel gave Bilhah to her husband Jacob. He had sexual relations with Bilhah.

Genesis 30:5
She became pregnant and gave birth to a son for Jacob.

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has listened to my prayer. He decided to give me a son." So she named this son Dan.

Genesis 30:7
Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob 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.