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15 [a]I will lay waste mountains and hills,
    all their undergrowth I will dry up;
I will turn the rivers into marshes,
    and the marshes I will dry up.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 42:15–16 Active once more, God will remove the obstacles that hinder the exiles’ return, and will lead them by new roads to Jerusalem; cf. 40:3–4.

15 I will lay waste(A) the mountains(B) and hills
    and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn rivers into islands
    and dry up(C) the pools.

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10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
    the waters of the great deep,[a]
You who made the depths of the sea into a way
    for the redeemed to pass through?

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Footnotes

  1. 51:10 Great deep: a reference to the primeval chaos (cf. Gn 1:2; 7:11; 49:25; Jb 28:14; Ps 36:7; Jon 2:4).

10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,(A)
    the waters of the great deep,(B)
who made a road in the depths of the sea(C)
    so that the redeemed(D) might cross over?

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