Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;
And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

King James Version

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Holman Bible

When He withholds the waters, everything dries up,
and when He releases them, they destroy the land.

International Standard Version

When he withholds water, rivers dry up; when he lets them loose, they'll flood the land.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Amplified


“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;
Again, He sends the waters out, and they overwhelm and devastate the earth.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

Darby Translation

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, he will hold back upon the waters, and they will dry up: and he will send them forth and they will overturn the earth.

King James 2000

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Look, [if] he withholds the water, then they dry up; and [if] he sends them out, then they overwhelm [the] land.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Behold, if he withhold the waters, they dry up; If he let them go, they destroy the earth.

NET Bible

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth:

Webster

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עצר 
`atsar 
Usage: 46

and they dry up
יבשׁ 
Yabesh 
Usage: 69

שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

Context Readings

If You Want To Learn

14 If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open. 15 “Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;
And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
16 With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."

Genesis 6:13

And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 7:11-2

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Deuteronomy 11:17

then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.

1 Kings 8:35-36

"When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

Job 12:10

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Psalm 104:7-9

At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name;

Nahum 1:4

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.

Luke 4:25

But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,

James 5:17-18

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.

Revelation 11:6

They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

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