Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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 Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened. 15 Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land. 16 With Him are strength and wisdom, His the deceived and deceiver.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, saith unto Ahab, 'Jehovah, God of Israel, liveth, before whom I have stood, there is not these years dew and rain, except according to my word.'

Genesis 6:13

And God said to Noah, 'An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

Genesis 6:17

And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which is a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that is in the earth doth expire.

Genesis 7:11-2

In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day have been broken up all fountains of the great deep, and the net-work of the heavens hath been opened,

Deuteronomy 11:17

and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and He hath restrained the heavens, and there is no rain, and the ground doth not give her increase, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you.

1 Kings 8:35-36

'In the heavens being restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against Thee, and they have prayed towards this place, and confessed Thy name, and from their sin turn back, for Thou dost afflict them,

Job 12:10

In whose hand is the breath of every living thing, And the spirit of all flesh of man.'

Psalm 104:7-9

From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!

Amos 5:8

The maker of Kimah and Kesil, And the turner to morning of death-shade, And day as night He hath made dark, Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And poureth them on the face of the earth, Jehovah is His name;

Nahum 1:4

He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing.

Luke 4:25

and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,

James 5:17-18

Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;

Revelation 11:6

These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

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