15. There shall be a second exodus, destined to eclipse even the former one from Egypt in its wonders. So the prophecies elsewhere ( Psalms 68:22 ; Exodus 14:22 ; Zechariah 10:11 ). The same deliverance furnishes the imagery by which the return from Babylon is described ( Isaiah 48:20 ; Isaiah 48:21 ). destroy —literally, "devote," or "doom," that is, dry up; for what God dooms, perishes ( Psalms 106:9 Nahum 1:4 ). tongue —the Bubastic branch of the Nile [VITRINGA]; but as the Nile was not the obstruction to the exodus, it is rather the west tongue or Heroöpolite fork of the Red Sea. with . . . mighty wind —such as the "strong east wind" ( Nahum 1:4- : ), by which God made a way for Israel through the Red Sea. The Hebrew for "mighty" means terrible. MAURER translates, "With the terror of His anger"; that is, His terrible anger. in the seven streams —rather, "shall smite it ( divide it by smiting ) into seven ( many ) streams, so as to be easily crossed" [LOWTH]. So Cyrus divided the river Gyndes, which retarded his march against Babylon, into three hundred sixty streams, so that even a woman could cross it [HERODOTUS, 1.189]. "The river" is the Euphrates, the obstruction to Israel's return "from Assyria" ( Nahum 1:4- : ), a type of all future impediments to the restoration of the Jews. dry shod — Hebrew, "in shoes." Even in sandals they should be able to pass over the once mighty river without being wet ( Nahum 1:4- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"
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