Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst;

New American Standard Bible

He changes rivers into a wilderness
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

King James Version

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;

Holman Bible

He turns rivers into desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,

International Standard Version

He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground,

A Conservative Version

He turns rivers into a wilderness, and water springs into a thirsty ground,

American Standard Version

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, And watersprings into a thirsty ground;

Amplified


He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;

Bible in Basic English

He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

Darby Translation

He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;

King James 2000

He turns rivers into a wilderness, and the water springs into dry ground;

Lexham Expanded Bible

He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground,

Modern King James verseion

He sets rivers to a wilderness and water-springs to thirsty ground;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

which turneth floods into dry land, and drieth up the watersprings!

NET Bible

He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

New Heart English Bible

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

The Emphasized Bible

He turneth Rivers into a desert, and, Springs of Water, into thirsty ground,

Webster

He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the water-springs into dry ground;

World English Bible

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Youngs Literal Translation

He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He turneth
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

נהר 
Nahar 
Usage: 119

מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

References

Easton

Context Readings

Thanksgiving To Yahweh For His Of Deliverance

32 And they shall exalt him in the convocation of the people, and they shall praise him in the seat of the old men. 33 He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst; 34 A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it


Cross References

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste mountains and hills, and I will dry up all their green herbage; and I set the rivers for islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Isaiah 50:2

Wherefore, I came, and no man? I called and none answered. Being short, was my hand shortened from redeeming? and if not power in me to deliver behold, in my rebuke I will dry up the sea; I will set the rivers a desert: their fish shall stink from no water, and they shall die with thirst

1 Kings 17:1-7

And Elijah the Tishbite from the Tishbites of Gilead, will say to Ahab, Jehovah the God of Israel lives whom I stood before him if there shall be dew and rain but according to the mouth of my word.

1 Kings 18:5

And Ahab will say to Obadiaha, Go into the land to all the fountains of waters, and to all the torrents; perhaps we shall find grass and preserve alive the horse and the mule, and we shall not be cut off from the cattle.

Psalm 74:15

Thou didst cleave asunder the fountain and the torrent: thou driedst up the rivers of strength.

Isaiah 13:19-21

And Babel the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' grandeur was as God overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 19:5-10

And the water failed from the sea, and the river will waste and dry up.

Isaiah 34:9-10

And its torrents turned to pitch, and its dust to sulphur, and its land to burning pitch.

Isaiah 44:27

Saying to the depth, Be thou dry, and I will dry up thy rivers.

Jeremiah 14:3

And their great ones sent their small ones to the waters; they came to the wells, they found no water; they turned back their vessels empty; they were ashamed and disgraced, and they covered their head.

Ezekiel 30:12

And I gave the rivers dryness and I sold the land, into the hand of the evil: and I made the land desolate, and its fulness by the hand, of strangers: I Jehovah spake.

Joel 1:20

Also the beasts of the field will look up to thee: for the channels of waters were dried up, and the fire devoured the habitations of the desert.

Amos 4:7-8

And I withheld from you the rain in yet three months to harvest: and I caused to rain upon one city, and upon one city I will not cause to rain: and one portion shall be rained upon, and the portion which shall not be rained upon, it shall dry up.

Nahum 1:4

Rebuking upon the sea, and he will dry it up, and all the rivers he laid waste, and Bashan languished, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languished.

Zephaniah 2:9

For this. I live, says Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, for Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon as Gomorrah, the possession of the thorn-bush and salt-pits, and a desolation even to forever: the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the rest of my nation shall inherit them.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assur; and he will set Nineveh for a desolation, a dryness as the desert

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