Isaiah 49 · Verse 11

Isaiah 49:11

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
Isaiah 49:11, King James Version

Isaiah 49:11 in other translations

BSBI will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.
WEBI will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.
ASVAnd I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
YLTAnd I have made all My mountains for a way, And My highways are lifted up.
DARBYAnd I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.
BBEAnd I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways will be lifted up.
WebsterAnd I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

What does Isaiah 49:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. my--All things are God's. mountains a way--I will remove all obstructions out of the way (Is 40:4). exalted--that is, cast up (Is 57:14; 62:10); for instance, over valleys. Vitringa explains "mountains" as great kingdoms, Egypt, Syria, &c., subjected to Rome, to facilitate the spreading of the Gospel; "highways," the Christian doctrine wherein those who join the Church walk, and which, at the time of Constantine, was to be raised into prominence before all, and publicly protected (Is 35:8, 9).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 49:7-12

The Father is the Lord, the Redeemer, and Holy One of Israel, as sending the Son to be the Redeemer. Man, whom he came to save, put contempt upon him. To this he submitted for our salvation. He is a pledge for all the blessings of the covenant; in him God was reconciling the world to himself. Pardoning mercy is a release from the curse of the law; renewing grace is a release from the dominion of sin: both are from…

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Isaiah 49:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְשַׂמְתִּ֥יve.sam.Tiand I will makeH7760
כָל\־khol-allH3605
הָרַ֖יha.Raimountains myH2022
לַדָּ֑רֶךְla.Da.rekhinto <the> roadH1870
וּמְסִלֹּתַ֖יu.me.si.lo.Taiand highways myH4546
יְרֻמֽוּן\׃ye.ru.Munthey will be lifted up !H7311

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Cross references for Isaiah 49:11

  • Isaiah 11:16

    And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Isaiah 62:10

    Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

  • Luke 3:4-5

    As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

  • Isaiah 35:8-10

    And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

  • Isaiah 40:3-4

    The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

  • John 14:6

    Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

  • Psalms 107:7

    And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

  • Isaiah 43:19

    Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

  • Isaiah 57:14

    And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

  • Psalms 107:4

    They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
11:16; 35:8-10; 40:3,4; 43:19; 57:14; 62:10; Ps 107:4,7; Lu 3:4,5
Joh 14:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Isaiah 49:10

    They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

  • Isaiah 49:11

    And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

  • Isaiah 49:12

    Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

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Isaiah 49:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y tornaré camino todos mis montes, y mis calzadas serán levantadas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et je ferai de toutes mes montagnes un chemin, et mes grandes routes seront élevées.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und alle meine Berge will ich zum Wege machen, und meine Straßen werden erhöht werden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et ponam omnes montes meos in viam, et semitæ meæ exaltabuntur.