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Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — YHWH speaks directly to Jacob, identified in the preceding verse as His servant, chosen one, and the one formed from the womb. The promise follows an explicit command not to fear.
The words — אֶצָּק ('e.tzok, "I will pour out") is the hinge of the verse, used twice to bind the physical image (water on thirsty ground) to the spiritual promise (Spirit on descendants) in a single action.
The thread — Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17 both echo the "pour out My Spirit" formula, extending the object from "your descendants" to "all people." Isaiah 59:21 reinforces the permanence of the Spirit's presence as a covenant mark.
Why it lands — The verse refuses to separate material and spiritual blessing; the Spirit is promised with the same concrete certainty as rain on dry ground. A reader is asked to receive the promise of the Spirit as plainly as a drought-stricken farmer receives rain.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
Cross-references
- Joel 2:28 And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
- Acts 2:17 ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
- Isaiah 59:21 “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
- John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Proverbs 1:23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
- Revelation 21:6 And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
- Acts 2:39 This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”
- Zechariah 12:10 Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- Ezekiel 39:29 And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Isaiah 32:15 until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.