Psalms 107:33

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“He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,”

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BSBPD

“He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 107:33 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
  2. 1 Kings 18:5Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
  3. Psalms 74:15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
  4. Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
  5. Isaiah 19:5The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.
  6. Isaiah 34:9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
  7. Isaiah 42:15I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.
  8. Isaiah 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
  9. Isaiah 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
  10. Jeremiah 14:3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
  11. Ezekiel 30:12I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
  12. Joel 1:20Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.
  13. Amos 4:7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
  14. Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
  15. Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
  16. Zephaniah 2:13And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

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