Isaiah 37:25

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I dug wells and drank water; with the soles of my feet, I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

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  • 1 Kgs 20:10 : 10 Then Ben-Hadad sent another message: 'May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the dust of Samaria will suffice for even a handful for each of the people who follow me.'
  • 2 Kgs 19:23-24 : 23 By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, saying, 'With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I will cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest junipers. I will go to its farthest heights, its most fruitful forest.' 24 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk water there. With the soles of my feet, I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.
  • Isa 36:12 : 12 But the Rabshakeh replied, 'Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words? Has he not sent me to the men sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?'
  • Deut 11:10 : 10 For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you came, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet like a vegetable garden.

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  • 2 Kgs 19:24-25
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    24I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk water there. With the soles of my feet, I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.

    25Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of rubble.

  • Isa 44:27
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    27I say to the deep waters, 'Be dry,' and I will dry up your rivers.

  • Isa 41:17-18
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    17The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I, the Lord, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

    18I will open rivers on the barren heights and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs.

  • Isa 42:15
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    15I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

  • Isa 19:5-6
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    5The waters will dry up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry.

    6The rivers will stink, the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reeds and rushes will wither.

  • Ps 74:15
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    15You opened up springs and streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

  • Isa 37:26
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    26Have you not heard? From long ago, I planned it; from ancient times, I designed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins.

  • Jer 51:36
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    36Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Behold, I will defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountains dry.'

  • Exod 7:24
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    24All the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water because they could not drink the water from the river.

  • Ps 107:33
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    33He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into parched ground,

  • Isa 48:21
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    21They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts; He made water flow from the rock for them; He split open the rock, and water gushed out.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
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    4A large number of people gathered together, and they stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?"

  • Job 28:4
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    4He cuts a shaft far from where people dwell; forgotten by travelers, they dangle and swing to and fro far from humankind.

  • Nah 1:4
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    4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.

  • Ezek 30:12
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    12'I will dry up the streams of Egypt, sell the land into the hands of evil men, and desolate the land and everything in it by the hand of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken.'

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the depths.

    16He brought streams out of the rock and made water flow down like rivers.

  • Ps 22:15
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    15I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me.

  • Ps 105:41
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    41He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

  • Nah 3:14
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    14Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.

  • Ps 107:35
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    35He turns the desert into pools of water, and a dry land into flowing springs.

  • Isa 50:2
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    2Why, when I came, was there no one? Why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand too short to redeem? Do I have no power to save? Look, at my rebuke I dry up the sea; I turn rivers into a desert, so their fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

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    25Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It’s hopeless! I love foreigners, and I will follow them.’

  • Jer 2:18
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    18Now why go to Egypt to drink water from the Nile? And why go to Assyria to drink water from the river?

  • Job 12:15
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    15"If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth."

  • Lam 3:54
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    54Waters flowed over my head; I thought, 'I am cut off.'

  • Isa 43:20
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    20The animals of the field will honor Me— jackals and ostriches—because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people,

  • 1 Chr 11:17
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    17David longed for water and said, "If only someone would get me water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!"

  • Isa 51:10
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    10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a road for the redeemed to cross over?

  • Jer 46:8
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    8Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters surge like rivers. It says, 'I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.'

  • Prov 5:15
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    15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

  • Eccl 2:6
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    6I made reservoirs of water to irrigate groves of flourishing trees.

  • Job 40:23
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    23If the river roars, he is not alarmed; he is confident, even when the Jordan rushes against his mouth.

  • Ezek 31:4
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    4The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, sending its rivers around its planting place, and they watered all the trees of the field.

  • Jer 2:13
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    13For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

  • Isa 11:15
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    15The LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt. With a scorching wind, He will wave His hand over the River and divide it into seven streams, allowing people to cross in sandals.

  • Isa 63:6
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    6I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath, I made them drunk and poured their lifeblood onto the ground.

  • Ezek 32:14
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    14Then I will let their waters settle and make their rivers flow like oil, declares the Lord GOD.

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  • Ezek 29:10
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    10therefore, I am against you and your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a waste from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

  • Hos 13:5
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    5I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.

  • Isa 12:3
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    3With joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

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    7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lie, grass will grow with reeds and rushes.

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    6My steps were bathed in cream, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me.

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    16This is what the LORD says— He who makes a way through the sea and a path through mighty waters,

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    39I crushed them and shattered them so they could not rise; they fell beneath my feet.

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    17He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he pulled me out of deep waters.