Proverbs 5:16

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Should your springs be scattered abroad, your streams of water in the public squares?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:26 : 26 The singers go before, the musicians follow after, in the midst are the maidens playing tambourines.
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward.
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
  • Isa 48:21 : 21 They 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.
  • Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gate of their enemies."
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 So Israel will live in safety, isolated in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.
  • Judg 12:9 : 9 He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent his daughters outside the family for marriage and brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.

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    15Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.

  • Song 4:15
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    15You are a spring of gardens, a well of fresh water, flowing streams from Lebanon.

  • Prov 5:17-18
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    76%

    17Let them be yours alone, and not for strangers with you.

    18May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • Prov 18:4
    74%

    4The words of a person's mouth are like deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    74%

    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.

  • Amos 5:24
    74%

    24But let justice flow like a river, and righteousness like a never-ending stream.

  • Ps 104:10
    74%

    10He sends springs into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

  • Isa 41:18
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 6:7
    73%

    7As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps her wickedness fresh. Violence and destruction are heard within her; continually before me, there are sickness and wounds.

  • Jas 3:11
    73%

    11Does a spring pour forth both sweet and bitter water from the same opening?

  • Deut 8:7
    71%

    7For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with streams of water, springs, and deep waters flowing out in valleys and hills.

  • Joel 3:18
    71%

    18In that day, the mountains will drip with sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, and all the streams of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Acacias.

  • Ps 107:33
    71%

    33He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into parched ground,

  • John 4:14
    71%

    14But whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

  • Job 28:4
    70%

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

  • Prov 25:26
    70%

    26Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

  • Ps 107:35
    70%

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

  • Isa 37:25
    70%

    25I dug wells and drank water; with the soles of my feet, I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • Jer 2:13
    70%

    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.

  • Ps 74:15
    70%

    15You opened up springs and streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
    70%

    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.

  • Ps 84:6
    70%

    6Blessed is the one whose strength is in You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage.

  • Isa 12:3
    70%

    3With joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
    70%

    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?"

  • Ps 105:41
    69%

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

  • Nah 2:6
    69%

    6He summons his elite warriors, but they stumble on their way. They rush to the wall, and the siege device is prepared.

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

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    38'Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.'

  • Song 4:12
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    12A locked garden is my sister, my bride—an enclosed spring, a sealed fountain.

  • Ps 114:8
    69%

    8who turned the rock into a pool, the hard stone into a spring of water.

  • Eccl 11:1
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    1Send your bread upon the waters, for in many days you will find it again.

  • Isa 58:11
    69%

    11The Lord will guide you continually, and he will satisfy your soul in parched places and strengthen your bones. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

  • Ezek 47:8
    69%

    8He said to me, 'This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, where it enters the Dead Sea. When it flows into the sea, the water there becomes fresh.'

  • Job 5:10
    69%

    10He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

  • Eccl 1:7
    69%

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  • Ps 65:10
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    10You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it.

  • Job 28:11
    69%

    11He dams up streams to stop their flow, and brings to light what is hidden.

  • Job 12:15
    69%

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

  • Ps 104:13
    68%

    13He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

  • Ps 119:136
    68%

    136Streams of tears flow from my eyes because people do not keep Your law.

  • Ps 36:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

    9They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

  • Isa 48:21
    68%

    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.

  • Isa 32:20
    68%

    20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, letting the oxen and the donkey roam freely.

  • Prov 3:10
    68%

    10Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

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    68%

    6Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy. For waters will break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

  • Isa 30:25
    68%

    25On every high mountain and every lofty hill there will be streams of water flowing, in the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.

  • Num 24:6
    68%

    6Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens along a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.