Nahum 1:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Isa 33:9 : 9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
  • Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.
  • Matt 8:26 : 26 He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
  • Isa 44:27 : 27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'
  • Isa 50:2-3 : 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst. 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."
  • Isa 51:10 : 10 Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
  • Ezek 30:12 : 12 I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
  • Amos 1:2 : 2 He said: "Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither."
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 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,
  • Ps 114:3 : 3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
  • Ps 114:5 : 5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?
  • Isa 19:5-9 : 5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. 6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. 9 Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. 10 The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.
  • Josh 3:13-15 : 13 It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap." 14 It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people, 15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
  • Job 38:11 : 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • Ps 74:15 : 15 You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
  • Ps 104:7 : 7 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

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  • Nah 1:5-6
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    5The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.

    6Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

  • 9The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

  • Isa 19:5-6
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    5The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

    6The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

  • 15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

  • 15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Ps 107:33-35
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    33He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

    34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

    35He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

  • 3Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

  • 11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

  • 5For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

  • 16Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

  • 15Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.

  • 15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

  • 27who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

  • 4The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

  • 15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

  • 12He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

  • Joel 1:19-20
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    19Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

    20Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

  • 3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

  • 4"Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.

  • 5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

  • 3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

  • 31He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

  • 7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

  • 18"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

  • 7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

  • 25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

  • 4The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

  • 24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • 16when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • 10The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

  • 16Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

  • 8But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

  • 18I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • 2Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

  • 18He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

  • 11He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

  • 4He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

  • 11He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.

  • 15Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

  • 10Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

  • 2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

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    8Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

    9mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

  • 9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

  • 8Yahweh's voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.