And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.
In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not be washed in them and become clean? So turning, he went away in wrath.
All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.
And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.
Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord.
Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?
Your bow was quite uncovered. Selah. By you the earth was cut through with rivers.
Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:
Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.
In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.
And the rivers will have an evil smell; the stream of Egypt will become small and dry: all the water-plants will come to nothing.
And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.
And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.
When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.
Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.
And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.
Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?
Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.
Let him not see the rivers of oil, the streams of honey and milk.
When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.
He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water.
Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;
These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.
He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;
Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,
For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.
You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.
He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.
So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.
I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.
And the third let what was in his vessel come out into the rivers and the fountains of water; and they became blood.
And at the sounding of the third angel, there went down from heaven a great star, burning like a flame, and it came on a third part of the rivers, and on the fountains of water.
From over the rivers of Ethiopia, and from the sides of the north, they will come to me with an offering.
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