33 He (A)turns rivers into a desert,
    springs of water into thirsty ground,

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33 He turned rivers into a desert,(A)
    flowing springs(B) into thirsty ground,

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(A)Why, when I came, was there no man;
    why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
(B)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
(C)Behold, by my rebuke (D)I dry up the sea,
    (E)I make the rivers a desert;
(F)their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.

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When I came, why was there no one?
    When I called, why was there no one to answer?(A)
Was my arm too short(B) to deliver you?
    Do I lack the strength(C) to rescue you?
By a mere rebuke(D) I dry up the sea,(E)
    I turn rivers into a desert;(F)
their fish rot for lack of water
    and die of thirst.

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15 (A)I will lay waste mountains and hills,
    and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands,[a]
    and dry up the pools.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 42:15 Or into coastlands

15 I will lay waste(A) the mountains(B) and hills
    and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn rivers into islands
    and dry up(C) the pools.

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13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
    (A)and destroy Assyria,
and he (B)will make Nineveh a desolation,
    a dry waste like the desert.

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Assyria

13 He will stretch out his hand against the north
    and destroy Assyria,(A)
leaving Nineveh(B) utterly desolate
    and dry as the desert.(C)

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Therefore, (A)as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
    the God of Israel,
“Moab shall become (B)like Sodom,
    and the Ammonites (C)like Gomorrah,
a land possessed by nettles and salt pits,
    and a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
    and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”

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Therefore, as surely as I live,”
    declares the Lord Almighty,
    the God of Israel,
“surely Moab(A) will become like Sodom,(B)
    the Ammonites(C) like Gomorrah—
a place of weeds and salt pits,
    a wasteland forever.
The remnant of my people will plunder(D) them;
    the survivors(E) of my nation will inherit their land.(F)

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(A)He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
    he dries up all the rivers;
(B)Bashan and (C)Carmel wither;
    the bloom of (D)Lebanon withers.

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He rebukes(A) the sea and dries it up;(B)
    he makes all the rivers run dry.
Bashan and Carmel(C) wither
    and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.

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“I also (A)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
(B)I would send rain on one city,
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
    and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
so two or three cities (C)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
(D)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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“I also withheld(A) rain from you
    when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
    but withheld it from another.(B)
One field had rain;
    another had none and dried up.
People staggered from town to town for water(C)
    but did not get enough(D) to drink,
    yet you have not returned(E) to me,”
declares the Lord.(F)

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20 Even the beasts of the field (A)pant for you
    because the water brooks are dried up,
(B)and fire has devoured
    the pastures of the wilderness.

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20 Even the wild animals pant for you;(A)
    the streams of water have dried up(B)
    and fire has devoured the pastures(C) in the wilderness.

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12 And (A)I will (B)dry up the Nile
    and will sell the land into the hand of (C)evildoers;
(D)I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it,
    by the hand of (E)foreigners;
(F)I am the Lord; I have spoken.

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12 I will dry up(A) the waters of the Nile(B)
    and sell the land to an evil nation;
by the hand of foreigners
    I will lay waste(C) the land and everything in it.

I the Lord have spoken.

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Her nobles send their servants for water;
    they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
    they return with their vessels empty;
they are (A)ashamed and confounded
    and (B)cover their heads.

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The nobles send their servants for water;
    they go to the cisterns
    but find no water.(A)
They return with their jars unfilled;
    dismayed and despairing,
    they cover their heads.(B)

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27 (A)who says to the deep, ‘Be dry;
    I will dry up your rivers’;

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27 who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up(A) your streams,’

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(A)And the streams of Edom[a] shall be turned into pitch,
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day (B)it shall not be quenched;
    (C)its smoke shall go up forever.
(D)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.

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  1. Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
    her dust into burning sulfur;(A)
    her land will become blazing pitch!
10 It will not be quenched(B) night or day;
    its smoke will rise forever.(C)
From generation to generation(D) it will lie desolate;(E)
    no one will ever pass through it again.

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And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
    and the river will be dry and parched,
and its canals will become foul,
    and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
    reeds and rushes will rot away.
There will be bare places by the Nile,
    on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
    will be driven away, and will be no more.
The (A)fishermen will mourn and lament,
    all who cast a hook in the Nile;
and they will languish
    who spread nets on the water.
The workers in (B)combed flax will be in despair,
    and the weavers of white cotton.
10 Those who are the (C)pillars of the land will be crushed,
    and all who (D)work for pay will be grieved.

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The waters of the river will dry up,(A)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.(B)
The canals will stink;(C)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.(D)
The reeds(E) and rushes will wither,(F)
    also the plants(G) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field(H) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.(I)
The fishermen(J) will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks(K) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.
Those who work with combed flax(L) will despair,
    the weavers of fine linen(M) will lose hope.
10 The workers in cloth will be dejected,
    and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.

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