Holy Scripture

Isaiah 42:15

A church father on this verse
“(Verses 14-15) I have always kept silent, I have been quiet, I have been patient: like a woman in labor, I will speak. I will scatter and devour together. I will make mountains and hills desolate, and I will dry up all their vegetation, and I will turn rivers into islands, and I will dry up ponds. LXX: Have I been sil…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Commentary on Isaiah

Source: Septuagint

Original

15I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.

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In context

13The Lord God of hosts shall go forth, and crush the war: he shall stir up jealousy, and shall shout mightily against his enemies.

14I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear? I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze and wither at once.

— Isaiah 42:15 —

16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, and I will cause them to tread paths which they have not known: I will turn darkness into light for them, and crooked things into straight. These things will I do, and will not forsake them.

17But they are turned back: be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

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