Thematic Bible: Dearth


Thematic Bible



The poor and the needy are seeking water, And there is none, Their tongue with thirst hath failed, I, Jehovah do answer them, The God of Israel -- I forsake them not.

Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.


A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.

For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

And he hath been as a naked thing in a desert, And doth not see when good cometh, And hath inhabited parched places in a wilderness, A salt land, and not inhabited.

In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.