The people who live there are strong. The cities have walls and are very large. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.

where it will turn toward the valley at the border of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean.

The land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you came. You used to sow your seed and irrigate it with your foot as in a vegetable garden.

Joshua said to all the people: This is what Jehovah, the God of Israel says: 'Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. One of those ancestors was Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor. I took Abraham, your ancestor, from the land across the Euphrates and led him through the whole land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow, read more. but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanishes from their channels. Caravans turn aside from their routes. They go into the wasteland and perish. The caravans of Tema look for water. The traveling merchants of Sheba hope and wait in vain. They are distressed! They were once confident. They arrive there, only to be disappointed.

They cut out mineshafts in the rocks. Their eyes see every precious thing.

Jehovah controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream. He turns it where ever he wishes.

Why do I suffer constant pain? Why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?

The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, and sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there stood two others, one on the bank of the river on this side, and the other on the bank of the river on that side. One said to the man clothed in linen, which was above the waters of the river: How long will it be to the end of these wonders?

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden. From there it was separated into four headwaters.

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

After he sent them across, he also sent across all that he owned.

Two years later Pharaoh had a dream. He dreamed he was standing by the Nile River. Suddenly, seven nice-looking well-fed cows came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds. read more. Seven other cows came up from the river behind them. These cows were sickly and skinny. They stood behind the first seven cows on the riverbank.

Leave this place and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and all the places near there in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.

Moses continued: Cross over the Arnon River. I will help you defeat Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon and his country. Possess his land and engage him in battle.

I assigned the territory from Gilead to the Arnon River to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. The middle of the river was their southern boundary, and their northern boundary was the Jabbok River, part of which formed the Ammonite border.

Then the ocean floor could be seen. The foundations of the earth were laid bare at Jehovah's stern warning, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.

He used the stones to make an altar to the name of Jehovah. He dug a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two seahs of seed.

He will not look upon the streams, the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

They cut out mineshafts in the rocks. Their eyes see every precious thing.

My steps were washed with milk and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm?

He is like a tree planted by streams of water. It yields its fruit in season and its leaves do not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

He turned the sea into dry land. They crossed the river on foot. We rejoiced because of what he did there.

Should your waters overflow in the streets, like streams of water in public places?

His breath is like an overflowing stream. It raises neck high and sifts the nations with a sieve of destruction. It places a bit in the mouths of the people to lead them astray.

Jehovah will be the Almighty One (Powerful One) (Excellent One). It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams. No galley with oars will ride them, no mighty ship will sail them.

For he will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green. It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.

Let your cry go up to Jehovah: O wall of the daughter of Zion let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night. Give yourself no rest. Do not let your eyes hold back the drops of sorrow.

Say this: 'You mountains of Israel listen to the word of the Lord Jehovah! This is what the Lord Jehovah says to the mountains and hills and to the ravines and valleys: I am going to attack you with a sword and destroy your worship sites.

The angels rose. These were the living creatures that I saw at the Chebar River.

The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, and sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

Alien tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it.

I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood as far away as the mountains. The ravines will be full of you.'

I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel. I will feed them by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

Wherever the river flows, there will be many fish and animals. The river will make the water in the Dead Sea fresh. Wherever the river flows, it will bring life.

I saw in the vision: I was in Shushan the castle (palace), which is in the province of Elam by the River Ulai.

The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.

He who hears but does not do is like a man who built a house upon the earth without a foundation. A flood will send a stream of water and immediately it will fall. The ruin of that house will be great.

Two years later Pharaoh had a dream. He dreamed he was standing by the Nile River. Suddenly, seven nice-looking well-fed cows came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.

When she could not hide him any longer, she took a basket made of papyrus reeds and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in it and set it among the papyrus reeds near the bank of the Nile River.

The king's daughter came to the river to bathe. Her servants walked along the bank. Suddenly she noticed the basket in the papyrus reeds and sent a slave woman to get it.

They went as far as the Eshcol Valley. They saw the land. But then they discouraged the rest of the Israelites from entering the land Jehovah had given them.

The leaders of Issachar came with Deborah. Issachar came and Barak too, and they followed him into the valley. But the tribe of Reuben was divided; they could not decide to come. Why did they stay behind with the sheep? Did they listen to shepherds calling the flocks? Yes, the tribe of Reuben was divided; they could not decide to come.

Then the ocean floor could be seen. The foundations of the earth were laid bare at Jehovah's stern warning, at the blast of breath from your nostrils.

The king of Assyria sent his commander-in-chief (Tartan), his quartermaster, and his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They stood at the channel for the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman's Field.

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

He is like a tree planted by streams of water. It yields its fruit in season and its leaves do not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

Jehovah will continually guide you. He will satisfy your desire in scorched places and give strength to your bones. You will be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

Why do I suffer constant pain? Why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?

For he will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green. It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.

Who is this, rising like the Nile River, like streams that flow swiftly? Egypt is like the rising Nile River, like a river quickly overflowing its banks. Egypt says: I will rise. I will cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people in them.

I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood as far away as the mountains. The ravines will be full of you.'

Will the land not tremble for this, and every one who dwells there mourn? I will rise up like the river. It will be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

For the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts. All who live there will mourn. It will rise up like the River Nile, and will subside again, like the River of Egypt.

He will pass through the sea of affliction and will strike the waves in the sea. The depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be removed and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

A river watering the garden flowed from Eden. From there it was separated into four headwaters.

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

The servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and then set out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand. He arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

He left in a hurry with all that belonged to him. He crossed the Euphrates River and went toward the mountains of Gilead.

Jehovah then spoke to Moses: Tell Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt; its rivers, canals, ponds, and all its reservoirs. They will turn into blood. There will be blood everywhere in Egypt, even in the buckets of wood and stone pitchers.

Jehovah also said to Moses: Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools. Make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.'

Leave this place and go to the mountain of the Amorites, and all the places near there in the plain, in the hills, and in the valley and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and to Lebanon, to the great river, the river Euphrates.

This is because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt. It is because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Are not the Abanah and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than any river in Israel? I could have washed in them and been cured!

The king of Assyria sent his commander-in-chief (Tartan), his quartermaster, and his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They stood at the channel for the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman's Field.

Everything else about Hezekiah, all his heroic acts and how he made the pool and tunnel to bring water into the city is written in the official records of the Kings of Judah.

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the Ahava River, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a safe journey for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

My steps were washed with milk and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm?

The river rages, but he is not alarmed. He is secure, though the Jordan should surge against his mouth.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water. It yields its fruit in season and its leaves do not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow. You greatly enrich it! The stream of God is full of water. You prepare their grain and thus you prepare the earth.

By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and cried as we remembered Zion.

Jehovah said to Isaiah: You and your son Shear-ja'shub should go out to meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the (laundryman's field) Fuller's Field.

That is why Jehovah is going to bring against them the raging and powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River, that is, the king of Assyria with all his power. It will overflow all its channels and go over all its banks.

His breath is like an overflowing stream. It raises neck high and sifts the nations with a sieve of destruction. It places a bit in the mouths of the people to lead them astray.

The king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. He stood at the channel for the Upper Pool on the road to the Laundryman's Field.

When you go through the sea, I am with you. When you go through rivers, they will not sweep you away. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not harm you.

If only you had listened to my commandments! Your peace would be like a river that never runs dry. Your righteousness would be like waves on the sea.

For he will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green. It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.

Who is this, rising like the Nile River, like streams that flow swiftly?

Jehovah says: Behold! Waters are going to rise from the north and become an overflowing torrent. They will overflow (flood) the land and all its fullness, the city and those who live in it and the men will cry out. Every inhabitant of the land will wail.

I was living among the exiles by the Chebar River. On the fifth day of the fourth month in the thirtieth year the [figurative] heaven opened and I saw visions from God.

The waters made it grow, the deep made it high. With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place, and sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

I saw in the vision: I was in Shushan the castle (palace), which is in the province of Elam by the River Ulai. A ram with two horns stood next to the river. The two horns were tall, but one was taller than the other, and the taller one came up last.

He approached the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing next to the river. He charged him with the full fury of his power.

I was on the shore of the great river, Hiddekel (Tigris River) on the twenty-fourth day of the first month.

Justice should roll down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.

It is decreed: she is uncovered! She is carried away and her handmaids moan like the sound of doves, beating on their chests.

People from the province of Judea and the city of Jerusalem went out to hear John. They confessed their sins and he baptized them in the Jordan River.

They drink their fill of the abundance of your house. You give them the river of your delights to drink.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

He measured another fifteen hundred feet. But the water had risen so much that it became a river that I could not cross. The river was too deep to cross except by swimming. He asked me: Son of man, do you see this? read more. The man then led me back along the bank of the river. As I went back, I saw many trees on both sides of the river. He said: This water flows through the land to the east, down into the Jordan Valley, and into the Dead Sea. When the water flows into the Dead Sea, it will replace the salt water there with fresh water. Wherever the river flows, there will be many fish and animals. The river will make the water in the Dead Sea fresh. Wherever the river flows, it will bring life. From En Gedi to En Eglaim people will be standing on the shore of the sea with their fishing nets spread out. As many kinds of fish will be there as there are in the Mediterranean Sea. But the water in the swamps and marshes will not become fresh. It will remain salty. All kinds of fruit trees will grow on both sides of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and they will not fail to produce fruit. Each month they will produce fresh fruit because this water flows from the Holy Place. The fruit will be good food, and the leaves will be used for healing.

He left in a hurry with all that belonged to him. He crossed the Euphrates River and went toward the mountains of Gilead.

I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land. You will drive them out as you advance.

They are like valleys that stretch out, like gardens beside the river, like aloes planted by Jehovah, like cedars beside the waters.

My steps were washed with milk and the rock poured out streams of oil for me!

They drink their fill of the abundance of your house. You give them the river of your delights to drink.

He brought forth streams also from the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers? Or is your fury against the sea? You rode upon the horses and your chariots are salvation.