12 Bible Verses about No Water For People

When the water in the skin was all gone, Hagar abandoned the boy under one of the bushes.

Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went into the Wilderness of Shur; they went [a distance of] three days (about thirty-three miles) in the wilderness and found no water.

Then all the congregation of the children of Israel moved on from the Wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

Now there was no water for the congregation, and they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.

Why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”

So the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, nor is there any water, and we loathe this miserable food.”

They moved out from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. They made a circuit of seven days’ journey, but there was no water for the army or for the cattle that followed them.

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched;
My eyes fail while I wait [with confident expectation] for my God.

You shall drink water by measure also, the sixth part of a hin; you shall drink daily at a set time.

Listen carefully, the Lord God of hosts is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;

because bread and water will be scarce; and they will look at one another in dismay and waste away [in punishment] for their wickedness.