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Isaiah 44:3

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For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

KJV

For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

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This verse in Isaiah 44

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 420.

on Isaiah 44:3-5

(Chapter 44, verse 3 and following) For I will pour water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants. They will sprout among the grass, like willows by flowing streams. He will say, 'I am the Lord's,' and another will name himself by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, 'The Lord's,' and adopt the name of Israel.

This site's exposition

Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant

on Isaiah 44:1-3

Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant opens the chapter on the same servant language that named Israel through the trial of chapter 43, formed thee from the womb reaching back to before birth for the ground of the promise. Fear not repeats a third time in two chapters, now paired with a name found nowhere else in Scripture, Jesurun, which the older writers read as an affectionate name for the upright one. Verse 3 promises water for the thirsty and my spirit upon thy seed together, the Spirit's outpouring set beside physical relief for a people about to be scattered no longer, which Delitzsch and Barnes both connect forward to the later prophets' fuller Spirit promises.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
For I will pour water - Floods, rivers, streams, and waters, are often used in the Scriptures, and especially in Isaiah, to denote plenteous divine blessings, particularly the abundant influences of the Holy Spirit (see the note at Isa 35:6-7). That it here refers to the Holy Spirit and his influences, is proved by the parallel expressions in the subsequent part of the verse.

The words behind it

15 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּ֤יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אֶצָּק־I will pour out

    ʾetzok-H3332 →

  • מַ֙יִם֙water

    mayimH4325 →581 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • צָמֵ֔אthirsty [ground]

    tzame'H6771 →9 times

  • וְנֹזְלִ֖יםand streams

    venozelimH5140 →16 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • יַבָּשָׁ֑הdry ground

    yabashahH3004 →

  • אֶצֹּ֤קI will pour out

    ʾetzokH3332 →

  • רוּחִי֙spirit my

    ruchiH7307 →378 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • זַרְעֶ֔ךָoffspring your

    zarekhaH2233 →229 times

  • וּבִרְכָתִ֖יand blessing my

    uvirkhatiH1293 →69 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • צֶאֱצָאֶֽיךָ׃descendants your

    tzeetzaeikhaH6631 →11 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joel 2:28And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.1000 worksActs 2:17‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.881 worksIsaiah 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.597 worksJohn 7:37–39On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.488 worksProverbs 1:23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.437 worksRevelation 21:6And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.382 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Acts 2:39This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”317 worksZechariah 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.314 worksEzekiel 39:29And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”306 worksIsaiah 32:15until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.269 worksActs 10:45All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.247 worksTitus 3:5–6He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.245 worksPsalms 107:35He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.230 worksIsaiah 43:19–20Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.221 worksIsaiah 41:17The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.213 worksJoel 3:18And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.208 worksActs 2:33Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.193 worksJohn 7:38Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”189 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Isaiah 59:21

    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 31:31–34

      Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

    • Hebrews 10:16

      “This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

    • Ezekiel 36:25–27

      I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

    • Jeremiah 32:38–41

      They will be My people, and I will be their God.

    • Hebrews 8:6–13

      Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.

  • Through

    Joel 2:28

    And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

    it leads to

    • Acts 2:16–21

      No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

    • Ezekiel 39:29

      And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”

  • Through

    Acts 2:17

    ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

    it leads to

    • Joel 2:28–32

      And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

Where this verse is studied

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Isaiah: the study guide →Read Isaiah 44 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah and Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah.

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