Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?

Their measure is longer than the earth
and wider than the sea.

the smell of water makes it thrive
and produce twigs like a sapling.

As water disappears from the sea
and a river becomes parched and dry,

as water wears away stones
and torrents wash away the soil from the land,
so You destroy a man’s hope.

how much less one who is revolting and corrupt,
who drinks injustice like water?

You gave no water to the thirsty
and withheld food from the famished,

or darkness, so you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.

They float on the surface of the water.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.

my lips will not speak unjustly,
and my tongue will not utter deceit.

When God fixed the weight of the wind
and limited the water by measure,

My roots will have access to water,
and the dew will rest on my branches all night.

What man is like Job?
He drinks derision like water.

when water becomes as hard as stone,
and the surface of the watery depths is frozen?

Can you command the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?

Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven

Who can strip off his outer covering?
Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?

He is like a tree planted beside streams of water
that bears its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.

I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are disjointed;
my heart is like wax,
melting within me.

BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.

Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

They will vanish like water that flows by;
they will aim their useless arrows.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride.
They utter curses and lies.

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.

You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but You brought us out to abundance.

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Davidic.Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.

The clouds poured down water.
The storm clouds thundered;
Your arrows flashed back and forth.

He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.

He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.

Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.
But can He also provide bread
or furnish meat for His people?”

They poured out their blood
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.

They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.

They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a stream in the desert.

Water covered their foes;
not one of them remained.

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

He turns a desert into a pool of water,
dry land into springs of water.

He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.

who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

Reach down from heaven;
rescue me from deep water, and set me free
from the grasp of foreigners

Drink water from your own cistern,
water flowing from your own well.

Should your springs flow in the streets,
streams of water in the public squares?

I was born
when there were no watery depths
and no springs filled with water.

“Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”

A generous person will be enriched,
and the one who gives a drink of water
will receive water.

Counsel in a man’s heart is deep water;
but a man of understanding draws it out.

A king’s heart is like streams of water in the Lord’s hand:
He directs it wherever He chooses.

Complete your outdoor work, and prepare your field;
afterward, build your house.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat,
and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

Good news from a distant land
is like cold water to a parched throat.

As water reflects the face,
so the heart reflects the person.

Sheol; a childless womb;
earth, which is never satisfied with water;
and fire, which never says, “Enough!”

I constructed reservoirs of water for myself from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees.

You are a garden spring,
a well of flowing water
streaming from Lebanon.

His eyes are like doves
beside streams of water,
washed in milk
and set like jewels.

Your silver has become dross,
your beer is diluted with water.

For you will become like an oak
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.

Observe this: The Lord God of Hosts
is about to remove from Jerusalem and from Judah
every kind of security:
the entire supply of bread and water,

All of them will come and settle
in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,
in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.

None will harm or destroy another
on My entire holy mountain,
for the land will be as full
of the knowledge of the Lord
as the sea is filled with water.

You will joyfully draw water
from the springs of salvation,

Then the fishermen will mourn.
All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will shrivel up.

Bring water for the thirsty.
The inhabitants of the land of Tema
meet the refugees with food.

You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

I, Yahweh, watch over it;
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.

And I will make justice the measuring line
and righteousness the mason’s level.”
Hail will sweep away the false refuge,
and water will flood your hiding place.

It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,
then wakes and is still hungry;
and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,
then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.
So it will be for all the many nations
who go to battle against Mount Zion.

Its collapse will be like the shattering
of a potter’s jar, crushed to pieces,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains—
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”

The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression, but your Teacher will not hide Himself any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,

Each will be like a shelter from the wind,
a refuge from the rain,
like streams of water in a dry land
and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

he will dwell on the heights;
his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,
his food provided, his water assured.

Then the lame will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy,
for water will gush in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;

the parched ground will become a pool of water,
and the thirsty land springs of water.
In the haunt of jackals, in their lairs,
there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.

Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern

I dug wells and drank water.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt
with the soles of my feet.”

The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them;
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I will open rivers on the barren heights,
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into springs of water.

The animals of the field will honor Me,
jackals and ostriches,
because I provide water in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to My chosen people.

For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants
and My blessing on your offspring.

The ironworker labors over the coals,
shapes the idol with hammers,
and works it with his strong arm.
Also he grows hungry and his strength fails;
he doesn’t drink water and is faint.

They did not thirst
when He led them through the deserts;
He made water flow for them from the rock;
He split the rock, and water gushed out.

They will not hunger or thirst,
the scorching heat or sun will not strike them;
for their compassionate One will guide them,
and lead them to springs of water.

Why was no one there when I came?
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is My hand too short to redeem?
Or do I have no power to deliver?
Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.

as fire kindles the brushwood,
and fire causes water to boil—
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that nations will tremble at Your presence!

For My people have committed a double evil:
They have abandoned Me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.

As a well gushes out its water,
so she pours out her evil.
Violence and destruction resound in her.
Sickness and wounds keep coming to My attention.

Why are we just sitting here?
Gather together; let us enter the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has destroyed us.
He has given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the Lord.

If my head were a spring of water,
my eyes a fountain of tears,
I would weep day and night
over the slain of my dear people.

Their nobles send their servants for water.
They go to the cisterns;
they find no water;
their containers return empty.
They are ashamed and humiliated;
they cover their heads.

Why has my pain become unending,
my wound incurable,
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me—
water that is not reliable.

He will be like a tree planted by water:
it sends its roots out toward a stream,
it doesn’t fear when heat comes,
and its foliage remains green.
It will not worry in a year of drought
or cease producing fruit.

Lord, the hope of Israel,
all who abandon You
will be put to shame.
All who turn away from Me
will be written in the dirt,
for they have abandoned
the Lord, the fountain of living water.

Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags?
Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail?

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets:

I am about to feed them wormwood
and give them poisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has spread throughout the land.

For this is what the Lord of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the water carts, and the rest of the articles that still remain in this city,

They will come weeping,
but I will bring them back with consolation.
I will lead them to wadis filled with water
by a smooth way where they will not stumble,
for I am Israel’s Father,
and Ephraim is My firstborn.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the Lord’s temple and the water carts and the bronze reservoir that were in the Lord’s temple, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.