Isaiah 33:21

Isa. 33:21. Jerusalem had no considerable river running by it, as the royal cities in Egypt and Assyria and Chaldea and most great cities had; nothing but the brook Kedron, upon which account their enemies despised them: nor did the children of Israel deal much in ships, as Egypt and Assyria and Chaldea did, and carried on their wars in considerable measure by them. See Isaiah 43:14. But in God there shall be more than an equivalent; the glorious Jehovah will be to Jerusalem a "place of broad rivers and streams." Thus we read of a river running through the New Jerusalem. But if there be "broad rivers" and "streams" in Jerusalem may not these yield an easy access to the fleet of the invader? No! These are rivers and streams in which shall go no galley with oars or gallant ship. If God Himself be the river, it must needs be inaccessible to the enemy. God's people need not fear though the earth be removed, for there is a river that makes glad the city of God. Psa. 46. [See HENRY.]

Isa. 34:5