Teks -- Isaiah 63:13 (NET)

63:13 who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running on flat land they did not stumble.

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Wesley: Isa 63:13 - As an horse

With as much ease and tenderness, as an horse led by the bridle.

Wesley: Isa 63:13 - Not stumble

That, tho' the sea were but newly divided, yet it was dried and smoothed by the wind, that God sent, as it were to prepare the way before them.

JFB: Isa 63:13 - deep

Literally, "the tossing and roaring sea."

JFB: Isa 63:13 - wilderness

Rather, the "open plain" [HORSLEY], wherein there is no obstacle to cause a horse in its course the danger of stumbling.

Clarke: Isa 63:13-14 - That led them through the deep - As a beast goeth down into the valley

That led them through the deep - As a beast goeth down into the valley - In both these verses there is an allusion to the Israelites going through the Red Sea, in the bottom of which they found no more inconvenience than a horse would in running in the desert, where there was neither stone nor mud; nor a beast in the valley, where all was plain and smooth.

Calvin: Isa 63:13 - Who made them walk through the depths

13.Who made them walk through the depths These things are added for the purpose of setting that benefit in a stronger light. He likewise brings forward comparisons, in order to describe that extraordinary power of God: “As a horse in the desert, As a beast into a plain;” that is, he led out his people as gently as if one were leading a horse into a plain. By the word “desert” is not meant the wilderness of Paran in which the people dwelt forty years; but, in accordance with the ordinary usage of the Hebrew tongue, it denotes pasture, in which herds and flocks wander at large. This is still more evident from the following verse, —

TSK: Isa 63:13

Psa 106:9; Hab 3:15

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Poole: Isa 63:13 - That led them through the deep // As an horse in the wilderness // That they should not stumble

That led them through the deep showing that God did not dry up shallow places, but the very depth of the sea, the very channel, which is the deepest part. Or, between those heaps of waters that stood up as a wall on each side of them, which might make it seem terrible, and therefore it is ascribed to their faith, Heb 11:29 .

As an horse in the wilderness or, plain ; for so wilderness is sometimes taken, and may be here meant, by comparing it to a valley in the next verse, viz. with as much safety as the horse runs up and down in the plain ground; or, with as much ease and tenderness as a horse led by the bridle; not as men affrighted, but soberly and orderly.

That they should not stumble: this may be taken metaphorically, they came to no harm; or properly, that though the sea were but newly divided, yet it was so dried, that the mud, as also the unevenness of the ground, was not any occasion of their stumbling, or their sticking in it; probably so dried and smoothed by the wind that God sent as it were to prepare the way before them. See Isa 40:3-5 .

Haydock: Isa 63:13 - Not

Not, the road was so plain, Wisdom xix. 7. (Haydock)

Gill: Isa 63:13 - That led them through the deep // as an horse in the wilderness // that they should not stumble

That led them through the deep,.... The depths, the bottom of the sea; not through the shallow, but where the waters had been deepest, the descent greatest; and at the bottom of which might have been expected much filth and dirt to hinder them in their passage, yet through this he led them:

as an horse in the wilderness; or rather, "in a plain", as the word ^b sometimes signifies; and so Kimchi renders it a plain land, and Jarchi smooth land. The sense is, that the Israelites passed through the sea with as much ease, and as little difficulty, as a good horse will run over a plain, where there is nothing to stop his course:

that they should not stumble? there being no clay to stick in, no stone to stumble at, but all like an even plain.