Psalms 107:33 Cross References

Psalms 107:33

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

Was I too weak to save you? Is that why the house is silent and empty when I come home? 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! I can turn rivers into deserts covered with dying fish.

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

Now, as surely as I live," says the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, "Moab and Ammon will be destroyed as completely as Sodom and Gomorrah. Their land will become a place of stinging nettles, salt pits, and eternal desolation. Those of my people who are left will plunder them and take their land."

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 become foul with rotting reeds and rushes.
All the greenery along the riverbank will wither and blow away. All the crops will dry up, and everything will die.
The fishermen will weep for lack of work. Those who fish with hooks and those who use nets will all be unemployed.
The weavers will have no flax or cotton, for the crops will fail.

Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, "As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives--the God whom I worship and serve--there will be no dew or rain during the next few years unless I give the word!"
Then the LORD said to Elijah,
"Go to the east and hide by Kerith Brook at a place east of 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 had told him and camped beside Kerith Brook.

Even the wild animals cry out to you because they have no water to drink. The streams have dried up, and fire has consumed the pastures.

Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean culture, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
Babylon will never rise again. Generation after generation will come and go, but the land will never again be lived in. Nomads will refuse to camp there, and shepherds will not allow their sheep to stay overnight.
Wild animals of the desert will move into the ruined city. The houses will be haunted by howling creatures. Ostriches will live among the ruins, and wild goats will come there to dance.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I will dry up the Nile River and hand the land over to wicked men. I will destroy the land of Egypt and everything in it, using foreigners to do it. I, the LORD, have spoken!

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

"I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
People staggered from one town to another for a drink of water, but there was never enough. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.

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