For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
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For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.
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But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
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For I am the LORD thy God, who stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is His name.
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- Jeremiah 31:35 Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:
- Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
- Amos 9:5-6 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt. It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.
- Psalms 74:13 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.
- Psalms 114:3-5 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs. What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
- Psalms 136:13 to him who divided the Red Sea apart; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Isaiah 47:4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 51:10 Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
- Jeremiah 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- Job 26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.
- Isaiah 48:2 for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- Nehemiah 9:11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 51:15 But I [am] the LORD thy God,…
Isa 51:15 But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
Ver. 15. For I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea.] Or, I the Lord thy God am he that stilleth the sea when the waves of it roar; how much more then can I curb and control the rage of man! "Surely," saith David, "the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain"; where the Septuagint have it, It shall keep holiday to thee, εωρταζει σοι.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But I am the Lord thy God that divided…
But I am the Lord thy God that divided the sea, whose waves roared,.... Referring to the dividing of the Red sea by a violent wind, at which time the waves of it doubtless roared till they were made to stand quietly, as a wall on the right and left, for the Israelites to pass through, as in Isa 51:10. Or this is to be understood of the power of God at any time in stilling and quieting the sea when it rages; which signification the word (s) here used has, as Aben Ezra observes; which power is expressed by a rebuke or reproof of it. And so the Targum,
"I am the Lord thy God, that rebuketh the sea:''
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and in like manner the Syriac version; see Psa 106:9 with which compare Mat 8:26. Now he that can do, and oftentimes has done this, can rebuke, restrain, and still the fury of the oppressors, the rage of the persecutors, Rome Pagan or Papal, and deliver out of their hands, Psa 65:7,
the Lord of hosts is his name: the Lord of armies in heaven and earth, and therefore is able to do these things in a natural, civil, and religious sense.
(s) "qui tranquillat" Gakater; "faciens quiescere", so some in Vitringa; and the word has the signification of rest and quietness in ver 4.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain But I am the Lord thy God - In…
But I am the Lord thy God - In order to show them that he was able to save them, God again refers to the fact that he had divided the sea, and delivered their fathers from bondage and oppression.
That divided the sea - The Red Sea. The Chaldee renders this, ‘That rebuked the sea.’ The Septuagint, Ὁ ταράσσων ho tarassōn - ‘Who disturbs the sea.’ or, who excites a tempest. Lowth renders it, ‘Who stilleth at once the sea.’ The Hebrew word is the same which occurs in Isa 51:4, where it is rendered, ‘I will make my judgment to rest’ (רגע râga‛). Probably the idea here is, that he restrains the raging of the sea as if by fear; that is, makes it tranquil or still by rebuking it. He had this power over all raging seas, and he had shown it in a special manner by his rebuking the Red Sea and making it rest, and causing a way to be made through it, when the children of Israel came out of Egypt.
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The Lord of hosts is his name - (See the notes at Isa 1:9; compare the notes at Isa 42:8).
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain divided . . . sea--the Red Sea. The same…
divided . . . sea--the Red Sea. The same Hebrew word as "make to rest" (Isa 51:4). Rather, "that terrify the sea," that is, restrain it by My rebuke, "when its waves roar" [GESENIUS]. The Hebrew favors MAURER, "that terrify the sea so that the waves roar." The sense favors GESENIUS (Jer 5:22; Jer 31:35), or English Version (Isa 51:9-10, which favors the special reference to the exodus from Egypt).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. that divided the sea &c.] Render with R.V.…
15. that divided the sea &c.] Render with R.V. which stirreth up (see on Isa_51:4) the sea so that the waves thereof roar (cf. Job_26:12).
The idea is parallel with that of Isa_51:9 f., being an illustration of Jehovah’s power over the elements. He can, as it were, play with the sea, for His stirring it up to fury implies that He is able to restrain it, and at the right time to still it again.
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the Lord of hosts is his name] Chs. Isa_47:4, Isa_48:2, Isa_54:5.
15, 16. These verses contain a remarkable number of resemblances to other passages (see below). Isa_51:15, apart from the introductory words, occurs in Jer_31:35, though it is doubtful to which passage it originally belongs. Giesebrecht (on Jeremiah) unhesitatingly pronounces it a citation from this verse.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) But I am . . .—Better, Seeing that…
(15) But I am . . .—Better, Seeing that I am. The fact which follows is not contrasted with that which precedes, but given as its ground. The might of Jehovah is seen in the storm-waves of the sea. It is seen not less in the fall and rise of empires.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain But I am the Lord thy God, that divided…
But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea; rather, for I, the Lord thy God, am he that divided the sea (comp. ver. 10). The reference is once more to the great miracle wrought at the Exodus, when the Red Sea was "divided" before the host of Israelites. (Exo_14:21 Psa_74:13) Whose waves roared. (see Exo_14:27 Exo_15:10)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 51:15 I am the Lord: The Lord uses this…
51:15 I am the Lord: The Lord uses this formula to identify himself as the covenant God and to assure his people of the truth of his word and the reliability of his actions (see 27:3-4).
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