Psalm 107:33
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33 He (A)turns rivers into a desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,
Isaiah 50:2
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2 (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.
Isaiah 42:15
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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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 42:15 Or into coastlands
Zephaniah 2:13
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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.
Zephaniah 2:9
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9 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.”
Nahum 1:4
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4 (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.
Amos 4:7-8
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7 “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;
8 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.
Joel 1:20
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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.
Jeremiah 14:3
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3 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.
Isaiah 44:27
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27 (A)who says to the deep, ‘Be dry;
I will dry up your rivers’;
Isaiah 34:9-10
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9 (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.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams
Isaiah 19:5-10
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5 And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will be dry and parched,
6 and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
Isaiah 13:19-21
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19 And Babylon, (A)the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be (B)like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 (C)It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no (D)Arab will pitch his tent there;
no (E)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (F)wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (G)ostriches[a] will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
Psalm 74:15
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1 Kings 18:5
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5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”
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1 Kings 17:1-7
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Elijah Predicts a Drought
17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of (A)Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 And the word of the Lord came to him: 3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 7 And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
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- 1 Kings 17:1 Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
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