Parallel Verses
NET Bible
who says to the deep sea, 'Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,'
New American Standard Bible
And I will make your rivers
King James Version
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Holman Bible
and I will dry up your rivers;
International Standard Version
who says to the watery deep, "Be dry I will dry up your rivers;"
A Conservative Version
who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers,
American Standard Version
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
Amplified
“It is I who says to the deep, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.
Bible in Basic English
Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
Darby Translation
that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
Julia Smith Translation
Saying to the depth, Be thou dry, and I will dry up thy rivers.
King James 2000
That says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers:
Lexham Expanded Bible
who says to the deep, 'Dry up! And I will cause your rivers to dry up';
Modern King James verseion
who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I say to the ground, "Be dry," and I dry up thy water floods.
New Heart English Bible
who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'
The Emphasized Bible
Who saith to the deep - Be dry and Thy rivers, will I drain!
Webster
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
World English Bible
who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is saying to the deep, Be dry, and thy rivers I cause to dry up,
References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 44:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jerusalem Restored Through Cyrus
26 who fulfills the oracles of his prophetic servants and brings to pass the announcements of his messengers, who says about Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited,' and about the towns of Judah, 'They will be rebuilt, her ruins I will raise up,' 27 who says to the deep sea, 'Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,' 28 who commissions Cyrus, the one I appointed as shepherd to carry out all my wishes and to decree concerning Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt,' and concerning the temple, 'It will be reconstructed.'"
Cross References
Isaiah 42:15
I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.
Jeremiah 50:38
A drought will come upon her land; her rivers and canals will be dried up. All of this will happen because her land is filled with idols. Her people act like madmen because of those idols they fear.
Jeremiah 51:36
Therefore the Lord says, "I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry.
Psalm 74:15
You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.
Isaiah 11:15-16
The Lord will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.
Isaiah 43:16
This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,
Isaiah 51:15
I am the Lord your God, who churns up the sea so that its waves surge. The Lord who commands armies is his name!
Jeremiah 51:32
They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.
Revelation 16:12
Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east.