Psalms 107:33 Cross References - NSB

³³ He changes rivers into a desert, springs into thirsty ground,

¹ Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: »By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.« ² Then the word of Jehovah came to him, saying: ³ »Go east from here and hide by the Cherith Brook, east of Jordan. ⁴ »You will drink from the brook. I have ordered the ravens to feed you there.« ⁵ So he did as Jehovah said, living by the Cherith Brook, east of Jordan. ⁶ The ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening. And he drank water from the brook. ⁷ Now after a time the brook became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

⁵ Ahab said to Obadiah: »Come! Let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers. Let us see if there is any grass for the horses and the transport beasts. We must save some of the livestock.«

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

¹⁹ Babylon, the beauty (honor) (glory) of kingdoms, the majesty of Chaldean pride, will be overthrew by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁰ »It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there. ²¹ »But desert animals will lie down there. Their houses will be full of owls! Shaggy goats (demons) will play there and ostriches will dance there.

⁵ The waters of the Nile River will dry up. The riverbed will be parched and dry. ⁶ The canals will stink. The streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up. The reeds and rushes will wither. ⁷ The plants (rushes) along the Nile, at the mouth of the river will wither. Every sown field along the Nile will become parched and blow away to be no more. ⁸ The fishermen will groan and lament. All who cast hooks into the Nile and throw nets on the water will be weak and sick. ⁹ Those who work with combed flax will despair. The weavers of fine linen (and cotton) will lose hope. ¹⁰ The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.

⁹ Edom's streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar. ¹⁰ They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it.

¹⁵ »I will destroy the hills and mountains and dry up the grass and trees. I will turn the river valleys into deserts and dry up the pools of water.

² »Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Do I not have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.

²⁷ »‘I say to the watery deep: ‘Be a waste and I will dry up your rivers!’

³ Important people send their assistants out for water. They do not find any water at the cisterns. They return with their containers empty. They cover their heads, because they are ashamed and dishonored.

¹² »I will dry up the Nile River and sell the land to wicked people. I will have foreigners destroy the land and everything in it. I, Jehovah, have spoken.’

²⁰ »Yes, the beasts of the field pant for you. The water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.«

⁷ »I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One received rain. The other did not receive rain and it dried up. ⁸ »Two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water. They were not satisfied and yet you have not returned to me,« said Jehovah.

⁴ He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry. He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel become dry and the flower of Lebanon withers.

⁹ »Just as I live,« said Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, »Moab will be like Sodom, and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah. They will be possessions of nettles and salt pits. They will be deserted forever! My people will plunder them and the remnant of my nation will take possession of their land.

¹³ »He will stretch out his hand (exercise his power) against the north, and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a desolation. It will be barren like the desert wilderness.