Parallel Verses

King James 2000

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

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.

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 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening. 15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

Genesis 6:13

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.

Genesis 7:11-2

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Deuteronomy 11:17

And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives 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 confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

Job 12:10

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Psalm 104:7-9

At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hastened away.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? are not you he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon you: for you have made all these things.

Amos 5:8

Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

Nahum 1:4

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

Luke 4:25

But I tell you a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

James 5:17-18

Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

Revelation 11:6

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

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