And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod—the cosmic reversal of the geography of creation, with the LORD performing a new exodus miracle that parallels but exceeds the crossing of the Red Sea. The drying up of water barriers suggests the removal of all obstacles to the regathering of exiles and the restoration of the covenant people. This verse connects the promise of restoration to the memory of God's power demonstrated in the exodus, establishing continuity between past and future redemptive acts.

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