Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

他把水留住，水便枯干；他再发出水来，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

祂拦住水源，便有干旱；祂放开水源，大地被淹没。

他若把水阻截，水就干涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他把水留住，水便枯乾；他再發出水來，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

祂攔住水源，便有乾旱；祂放開水源，大地被淹沒。

他若把水阻截，水就乾涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他若抑制住水，水便乾了；他再送出水來，水就使地翻覆。

止水則水涸、出之則地淹、

止溪流而水涸、裂泉脈而地淹、

止水則水涸、使水流出則氾濫於地、氾濫於地原文作翻地

If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

If he holds back the water, everything dries up. If he lets the water loose, it floods the land.

If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert. If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.

When he withholds water, everything dries up, and when he releases it, it destroys the land.

Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

If He withholds the waters, they dry up; If He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

When He withholds the waters, everything dries up, and when He releases them, they destroy the land.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

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

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab,“ As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

“ When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.In the same day Noah, and Shem, Ham, and Japheth— the sons of Noah— and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ship—they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.The waters rose, and increased greatly on the earth; and the ship floated on the surface of the waters.The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.The waters flooded the earth one hundred fifty days.God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

God said to Noah,“ I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.