_And all the deeps of the river shall dry up._
That rivers are meant, in prophetic language, to represent the people
residing on their borders, appears in various passages. See Isa, viii. 7.
“_Now, therefore, behold the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the
river strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory._” In
like manner, the drying up of the Euphrates, is spoken of under the sixth
vial in the Revelations, in allusion to the nations bordering upon that
river.