Psalms 107:33

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

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  • Isa 50:2 : 2 Why, 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.
  • Isa 42:15 : 15 I 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 44:27 : 27 I say to the deep waters, 'Be dry,' and I will dry up your rivers.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1-7 : 1 Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word." 2 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 3 "Go 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 ravens to provide for you there." 5 So he went and did as the word of the LORD directed him. He went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 7 But after a while, the brook dried up because there was no rain in the land.
  • 1 Kgs 18:5 : 5 Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and brooks. Perhaps we can find grass to keep the horses and mules alive and avoid losing the animals."
  • Ps 74:15 : 15 You opened up springs and streams; You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
  • Isa 13:19-21 : 19 Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. 20 It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, and no shepherds will let their flocks lie down there. 21 But desert creatures will lie there; their houses will be full of howling creatures. Owls will dwell there, and goat-demons will dance there.
  • Isa 19:5-9 : 5 The waters will dry up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry. 6 The rivers will stink, the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reeds and rushes will wither. 7 The meadows by the Nile, along the banks of the river, and all sown land by the Nile will wither, be blown away, and be no more. 8 The fishermen will mourn, all who cast hooks into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the water will grow weak. 9 Those who work with combed flax and those who weave fine linen will be dismayed. 10 The pillars of the land will be crushed, and all who work for wages will be dejected in spirit.
  • Isa 34:9-9 : 9 And its streams will be turned to pitch, its soil to sulfur; its land will become burning pitch. 10 It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation, it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.
  • Jer 14:3 : 3 The nobles sent their servants for water; they went to the cisterns but found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, covering their heads.
  • Ezek 30:12 : 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.'
  • Joel 1:20 : 20 Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Amos 4:7-8 : 7 I withheld the rain from you when there were still three months until harvest. I caused it to rain on one city but not on another; one field received rain, while another withered due to lack of it. 8 People staggered from city to city for water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
  • Nah 1:4 : 4 He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
  • Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore, as surely as I live—declares the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel—Moab will become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual ruin. The remnant of My people will plunder them, and the survivors of My nation will inherit their land.
  • Zeph 2:13 : 13 He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate, as dry as the desert.

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  • Ps 107:34-36
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    34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who dwell there.

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

    36 There He settles the hungry, and they establish a city to live in.

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

  • 18 I 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.

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

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

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

  • Isa 19:5-7
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    5 The waters will dry up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry.

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

    7 The meadows by the Nile, along the banks of the river, and all sown land by the Nile will wither, be blown away, and be no more.

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

  • 40 He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • Ps 104:10-11
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    10 He sends springs into the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

    11 They give drink to every wild animal; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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

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

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

  • 44 He turned their rivers to blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

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

  • Isa 35:6-7
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    6 Then 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.

    7 The 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.

  • 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.'

  • 11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

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

  • 20 Even the wild animals pant for you; the streams of water have dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • 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.

  • 10 Therefore His people turn to them and drink up waters in abundance.

  • Job 38:26-27
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    26 to water a land where no man lives, an uninhabited desert,

    27 to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and make the dry, barren land produce grass?

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

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

  • 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.

  • 18 Swift upon the surface of the waters they are; their portion is cursed in the land; they do not turn to the way of the vineyards.

  • 15 Even though he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind of the LORD, rising from the wilderness. His spring will dry up, his fountain will be parched. It will plunder his treasury of every precious thing.

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

  • 29 He turned their waters into blood, and he killed their fish.

  • 9 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a wilderness.

  • 38 A drought is upon her waters; they will dry up. For it is a land of idols, and they go mad over terrifying images.

  • 7 For 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.

  • 27 For He draws up the drops of water; they distill as rain into His mist.

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

  • 6 He turned the sea into dry land; they crossed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in Him.

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

  • 32 Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders.

  • 7 He gathers the waters of the sea like a heap; He puts the depths into storehouses.

  • 18 He sends out His word and melts them; He makes His wind blow, and the waters flow.

  • 8 He 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.'

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

  • 1 The king's heart is like streams of water in the hand of the LORD; He directs it wherever He pleases.