Isaiah 37:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:10 : 10 Then Ben-hadad sent to him, saying, May the gods' punishment be on me if there is enough of the dust of Samaria for all the people at my feet to take some in their hands.
  • 2 Kgs 19:23-24 : 23 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods; I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods. 24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
  • Isa 36:12 : 12 But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
  • Deut 11:10 : 10 For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:

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    24I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

    25Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

  • Isa 44:27
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  • Isa 41:17-18
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    17The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

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  • Isa 42:15
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    15I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

  • Isa 19:5-6
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  • Ps 74:15
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    15You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • Isa 37:26
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    26Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

  • Jer 51:36
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    36For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

  • Exod 7:24
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  • Ps 107:33
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    33He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

  • Isa 48:21
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    21They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
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  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

    16He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

  • Ps 22:15
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    15My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Ps 105:41
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  • Jer 2:18
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    18And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

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    10Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

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