15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.


In Context

12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.

13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

14 |I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know. I will lead them in paths that they don't know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

17 |Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, 'You are our gods' will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

Isaiah 42:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

42:15I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

42:15I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and will make all their grass to wither: and I will turn rivers into islands, and will dry up the standing pools.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

42:15I 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:15I 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

42:15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

42:15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers to be islands, and I will dry up the pools.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

42:15I make waste mountains and hills, And all their herbs I dry up, And I have made rivers become isles, And ponds I dry up.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

42:15I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.