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

他使江河变为旷野，叫水泉变为干渴之地，

他使江河变为旷野，叫水泉变为干涸之地，

他使江河变为旷野，叫水泉变为干涸之地，

祂使江河变成荒漠，水泉变成干地，

他使江河变为旷野，使水泉变为干旱无水之地。

神使河流成为旷野，水源成为干涸之地，

他使江河變為曠野，叫水泉變為乾渴之地，

他使江河變為曠野，叫水泉變為乾涸之地，

他使江河變為曠野，叫水泉變為乾涸之地，

祂使江河變成荒漠，水泉變成乾地，

他使江河變為曠野，使水泉變為乾旱無水之地。

他使江河變為曠野，叫水源之處變為乾渴之地；

神使河流成為曠野，水源成為乾涸之地，

彼變江河為曠野、源泉為燥土、

主因人民蹈於愆尤、使水區為沙漠、江河為槁壤、膏腴之土、成斥鹵之地兮、

主使江河之地、變為沙漠、泉源之處、變為旱地、

頑民怙惡。主心不悅。變川為沙。泉源枯竭。

He turned rivers into a desert, flowing springs into thirsty ground,

He turned rivers into a desert. He turned flowing springs into thirsty ground.

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

He changes rivers into deserts, and springs of water into dry, thirsty land.

He turns rivers into desert, springs into thirsty ground,

He turns rivers into a wilderness, And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

He turns rivers into a wilderness, And the watersprings into dry ground;

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

He turns rivers into desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

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.

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.

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!

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“ As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives( whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”The LORD told him:“ Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”So he did as the LORD told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.

Ahab told Obadiah,“ Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals.”

The water of the sea will be dried up, and the river will dry up and be empty.The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up; the bulrushes and reeds will decay,along with the plants by the mouth of the river. All the cultivated land near the river will turn to dust and be blown away.The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve.Those who make clothes from combed flax will be embarrassed; those who weave will turn pale.Those who make cloth will be demoralized; all the hired workers will be depressed.

He shouts a battle cry against the seaand makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.

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

The LORD will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.

Therefore, as surely as I live,” says the LORD who commands armies, the God of Israel,“ be certain that Moab will become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. They will be overrun by weeds, filled with salt pits, and permanently desolate. Those of my people who are left will plunder their belongings; those who are left in Judah will take possession of their land.”

Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there.Wild animals will rest there, the ruined houses will be full of hyenas. Ostriches will live there, wild goats will skip among the ruins.

“ I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.People from two or three cities staggered into one city to get water, but remained thirsty. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!

who says to the deep sea,‘ Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.

Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the grassy pastures.