Isaiah 51:15

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.

American King James Version (AKJV)

But I am the LORD your God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.

American Standard Version (ASV)

For I am Jehovah thy God, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

For I am the Lord your God, who makes the sea calm when its waves are thundering: the Lord of armies is his name.

Webster's Revision

But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.

World English Bible

For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

English Revised Version (ERV)

For I am the LORD thy God, which stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar: the LORD of hosts is his name.

Definitions for Isaiah 51:15

Sea - Large basin.

Barnes's Isaiah 51:15 Bible Commentary

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 Isaiah 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.

The Lord of hosts is his name - (See the notes at Isaiah 1:9; compare the notes at Isaiah 42:8).