Nahum 1:4
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4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry,
and he dries up all the rivers;
Bashan and Carmel wither,
and the bloom of Lebanon fades.
Isaiah 33:9
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9 The land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
Psalm 106:9
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9 He rebuked the Red Sea,[a] and it became dry;
he led them through the deep as through a desert.(A)
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- 106.9 Or Sea of Reeds
Psalm 104:7
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7 At your rebuke they flee;
at the sound of your thunder they take to flight.
Matthew 8:26
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26 And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a dead calm.(A)
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Amos 1:2
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Judgment on Israel’s Neighbors
2 And he said:
The Lord roars from Zion
and utters his voice from Jerusalem;
the pastures of the shepherds wither,
and the top of Carmel dries up.(A)
Isaiah 51:10
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10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to cross over?(A)
Isaiah 50:2-3
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2 Why was no one there when I came?
Why did no one answer when I called?
Is my arm powerless to redeem?
Or have I no strength to deliver?
By my rebuke I dry up the sea;
I make the rivers a desert,
so that their fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.[a](A)
3 I clothe the heavens with blackness
and make sackcloth their covering.(B)
Footnotes
- 50.2 Or die on the thirsty ground
Isaiah 44:27
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27 who says to the deep, “Be dry—
I will dry up your rivers”;(A)
Isaiah 19:5-10
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5 The waters of the Nile will be dried up,
and the river will be parched and dry;(A)
6 its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up.
Reeds and rushes will rot away,(B)
7 the reeds beside the Nile;[a]
all that is sown by the Nile will dry up,
be driven away, and be no more.
8 Those who fish will mourn;
all who cast hooks in the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will languish.
9 The workers in flax will be in despair,
and the carders and those at the loom will grow pale.
10 Its weavers will be dismayed,
and all who work for wages will be grieved.(C)
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- 19.7 Gk: Heb beside the Nile, beside the mouth of the Nile
Psalm 114:5
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5 Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
Psalm 114:3
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3 The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.(A)
Psalm 74:15
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15 You cut openings for springs and torrents;
you dried up ever-flowing streams.(A)
Joshua 3:13-15
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13 When the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan flowing from above shall be cut off; they shall stand in a single heap.”(A)
14 When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people. 15 Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. So when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the edge of the water,(B)
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Amos 5:8
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8 The one who made the Pleiades and Orion
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the water of the sea
and pours it out on the surface of the earth,
the Lord is his name,(A)
Ezekiel 30:12
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12 I will dry up the channels of the Nile
and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers;
I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it
by the hand of foreigners;
I the Lord have spoken.(A)
Job 38:11
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11 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come and no farther,
and here shall your proud waves be stopped’?(A)
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