Verse 17
17. Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood Language setting forth a special and awful providence . The word מבול , flood, here used, is applied only to the deluge of Noah; Psalms 29:10, is no exception; and everywhere except in Genesis 9:15, where it is promised that a similar judgment shall never recur, it invariably has the article, pointing out the great inundation that once washed out the world’s sin in judgment .
To destroy all flesh This language is absolute and unqualified, as in Genesis 6:13, yet afterward the exceptions are introduced . Such rhetorical peculiarities mark the extreme antique simplicity of the style . These simple, absolute assertions, pictorially describing facts when seen, as it were, on successive sides, would have been interwoven into balanced periods in a more modern historical production.
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