Isaiah 11:15

Cf. Zechariah 10:10 f. shall utterly destroy lit. "lay under the ban." But the reading of several ancient versions (heḥěrîbfor heḥěrîm) gives a better sense: dry up; cf. ch. Isaiah 50:2. the tongue of the Egyptian seais the Gulf of Suez (cf. Joshua 15:2; Joshua 15:5; Joshua 18:19).

with his mighty wind Perhaps with the fierce heat of his breath. The word rendered "fierce heat" does not occur again in Hebrew, but a similar Arabic word is used of internal heat (either physical or mental). The phrase seems misplaced; it belongs to the figure of the drying up of the sea, not to that of shaking the hand. over the river the Euphrates, as in ch. Isaiah 7:20; Isaiah 8:7. smile it in the seven streams R.V. into seven streams. dryshod lit. "in sandals."