Isaiah 37:25
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 Ben Hadad sent another message to him,“May the gods judge me severely if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for all my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.”
- 2 Kgs 19:23-24 : 23 Through your messengers you taunted the Sovereign Master,‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars, and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods. 24 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
- Isa 36:12 : 12 But the chief adviser said,“My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”
- Deut 11:10 : 10 For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.
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24 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’
25 Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out. In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.
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27 who says to the deep sea,‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’
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17 The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the LORD, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.
18 I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.
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15 I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.
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5 The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.
6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,
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15 You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.
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26 Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.
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36 Therefore the LORD says,“I will stand up for your cause. I will pay the Babylonians back for what they have done to you. I will dry up their sea. I will make their springs run dry.
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24 All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.
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33 He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
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21 They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions; he makes water flow out of a rock for them; he splits open a rock and water flows out.’
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4 A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. They reasoned,“Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”
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4 Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.
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4 He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.
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12 I will dry up the waterways and hand the land over to evil men. I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners. I, the LORD, have spoken!
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15 He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.
16 He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.
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15 The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
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41 He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.
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14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
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35 As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.
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2 Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.
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25 Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say,‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’
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18 What good will it do you then to go down to Egypt to seek help from the Egyptians? What good will it do you to go over to Assyria to seek help from the Assyrians?
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15 If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
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54 The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die.
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20 The wild animals honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the wilderness and streams in the wastelands, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,
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17 David was thirsty and said,“How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate!”
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10 Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?
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8 Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt said,‘I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’
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15 Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.
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6 I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove of flourishing trees.
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23 If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.
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4 The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.
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13 “Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water.”
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15 The LORD will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.
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6 I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”
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14 Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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11 Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
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10 I am against you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border with Ethiopia.
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5 I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.
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3 Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of deliverance.
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7 The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.
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6 when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!
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16 This is what the LORD says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,
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39 I wipe them out and beat them to death; they cannot get up; they fall at my feet.
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17 He reached down from above and grabbed me; he pulled me from the surging water.