Proverbs 5:16

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Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:26 : 26 In your large assemblies praise God, the LORD, in the assemblies of Israel!
  • Ps 127:3 : 3 Yes, sons are a gift from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine in the inner rooms of your house; your children will be like olive branches, as they sit all around your table.
  • Isa 48:21 : 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.’
  • Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah with these words:“Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew.
  • Judg 12:9 : 9 He had thirty sons. He arranged for thirty of his daughters to be married outside his extended family, and he arranged for thirty young women to be brought from outside as wives for his sons. Ibzan led Israel for seven years;

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  • 15Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

  • 15You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

  • Prov 5:17-18
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    17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

    18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth–

  • 4The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

  • Ps 78:15-16
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    15He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

    16He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

  • 24Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.

  • 10He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

  • 18I 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.

  • 7As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.’

  • 11A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

  • 7For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

  • 18On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the LORD, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.

  • 33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

  • 14But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

  • 4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • 26Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

  • 35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

  • 25I dug wells and drank water. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • 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.”

  • 15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • 24I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

  • 6As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

  • 3Joyfully you will draw water from the springs of deliverance.

  • 4A 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?”

  • 41He opened up a rock and water flowed out; a river ran through dry regions.

  • 6The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.

  • 5The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.

  • 38let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

  • 12The Wedding Night: The Delightful GardenThe Lover to His Beloved: You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

  • 8who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!

  • 1Ignorance of the Future Demands Diligence in the Present Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

  • 11The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.

  • 8He said to me,“These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the rift valley; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.

  • 10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • 7All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.

  • 10You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

  • 11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

  • 15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • 13He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

  • 136Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law.

  • Ps 36:8-9
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    8They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

    9For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

  • 21They 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.’

  • 20you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.

  • 10then your barns will be filled completely, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

  • 6Then the lame will leap like a deer, the mute tongue will shout for joy; for water will burst forth in the wilderness, streams in the arid rift valley.

  • 25On every high mountain and every high hill there will be streams flowing with water, at the time of great slaughter when the fortified towers collapse.

  • 6They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.