He changes rivers into deserts, and springs of water into dry, thirsty 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 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 turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

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

Why was no one there when I came? Why didn’t anyone answer when I called? Is it because I have no power to rescue? No, that is not the reason! For I can speak to the sea and make it dry up! I can turn rivers into deserts covered with dying fish.

I will level the mountains and hills and blight all their greenery. I will turn the rivers into dry land and will dry up all the pools.

I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked men. I will destroy the land of Egypt and everything in it by the hands of foreigners. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab,“ As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives— the God I serve— there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”Then the Lord said to Elijah,“ Go to the east and hide by Kerith Brook, near where it enters the Jordan River.Drink from the brook and eat what the ravens bring you, for I have commanded them to bring you food.”So Elijah did as the Lord told him and camped beside Kerith Brook, east of the Jordan.The ravens brought him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he drank from the brook.But after a while the brook dried up, for there was no rainfall anywhere in the land.

The nobles send servants to get water, but all the wells are dry. The servants return with empty pitchers, confused and desperate, covering their heads in grief.

Ahab said to Obadiah,“ We must check every spring and valley in the land to see if we can find enough grass to save at least some of my horses and mules.”

The waters of the Nile will fail to rise and flood the fields. The riverbed will be parched and dry.The canals of the Nile will dry up, and the streams of Egypt will stink with rotting reeds and rushes.All the greenery along the riverbank and all the crops along the river will dry up and blow away.The fishermen will lament for lack of work. Those who cast hooks into the Nile will groan, and those who use nets will lose heart.There will be no flax for the harvesters, no thread for the weavers.They will be in despair, and all the workers will be sick at heart.

At his command the oceans dry up, and the rivers disappear. The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wither.

You caused the springs and streams to gush forth, and you dried up rivers that never run dry.

And the Lord will strike the lands of the north with his fist, destroying the land of Assyria. He will make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland, parched like a desert.

Now, as surely as I live,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel,“ Moab and Ammon will be destroyed— destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah. Their land will become a place of stinging nettles, salt pits, and eternal desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them and take their land.”

Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.Babylon will never be inhabited again. It will remain empty for generation after generation. Nomads will refuse to camp there, and shepherds will not bed down their sheep.Desert animals will move into the ruined city, and the houses will be haunted by howling creatures. Owls will live among the ruins, and wild goats will go there to dance.

“ I kept the rain from falling when your crops needed it the most. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.People staggered from town to town looking for water, but there was never enough. But still you would not return to me,” says the Lord.

When I speak to the rivers and say,‘ Dry up!’ they will be dry.

The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire.This judgment on Edom will never end; the smoke of its burning will rise forever. The land will lie deserted from generation to generation. No one will live there anymore.

Even the wild animals cry out to you because the streams have dried up, and fire has consumed the wilderness pastures.