Isaiah 58:8-14 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily… "Break forth" is the verb used in Isaiah 35:6; Genesis 7:11; Psalm 74:15, of the bursting of waters through a fissure in the earth's surface; by a vivid metaphor the dawn was conceived as "splitting" the heavens and flooding the world with light The same word occurs on the Moaite Stone in the phrase "from the splitting of the dawn." (Prof. J. Skinner,D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. |
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