Thematic Bible: Drought


Thematic Bible



Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you. Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalRainUnfruitfulnessWeather, As God's JudgmentElements, Control OfDispleasureDivine Power Over Nature

I will make it a wasteland.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.
Verse ConceptsBriersAgriculture, TermsPruningCommands, in OTdrought, physicalRainCultivationLack Of RainFallow Land

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you. Verse ConceptsFlintClimates, Typesdrought, physicalSnakesSuffering, HardshipThirstAnimals, Types OfGod Providing WaterDry PlacesProvision From RocksScorpions

When the skies are shut and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting them,
Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”
Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtBarren, LandDesertsWildernessDry PlacesDarkness During DaytimeEmpty By NatureWhere Is God?God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative Usedust


Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!” Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfBaal Worship, HistoryElijah, Prophecies OfElijah, Life Ofdrought, physicaldewLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPrayerfulnessRainWeather, As God's JudgmentMiracles Of ElijahCrowsImmigrants

The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
Verse ConceptsVeilsShaming People

I call to You, Lord,
for fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have devoured
all the trees of the countryside.
Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodBurning PlantsHarming TreesI Pray

I also withheld the rain from you
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.
Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalHarvestRainWeather, As God's JudgmentTwo To Four MonthsVariety Of Form

I have summoned a drought
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, olive oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all that your hands produce.”
Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalOilShortage Of WineProvision Of OilBoth Men And Animals AffectedDoing One's Work

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. Verse ConceptsAnswered Prayerdrought, physicalElijah, Prophecies OfRainMiracles Of ElijahPrayer, Offered WithAsking PermissionThree And A Half YearsLack Of RainLike People By NatureGod Answered PrayerMonthsPassion

When the skies are shut and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting them,
Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

When the skies are shut and there is no rain
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting them,
Verse ConceptsClosing Up

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on My people, Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTClosing Up

Although he flourishes among his brothers,
an east wind will come,
a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert.
His water source will fail,
and his spring will run dry.
The wind will plunder the treasury
of every precious item.
Verse ConceptseastShepherds, As OccupationsTreasureOut Of The EastWaters Drying UpGod Dispensing WindFailing RiversTaking PossessionsFamineThe East Wind

For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.Selah
Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightdefeatSummerGod's HandHot WeatherGod's Hands In OppositionNo Strength LeftPsalm Interjections


Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!” Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfBaal Worship, HistoryElijah, Prophecies OfElijah, Life Ofdrought, physicaldewLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPrayerfulnessRainWeather, As God's JudgmentMiracles Of ElijahCrowsImmigrants

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. Verse ConceptsAnswered Prayerdrought, physicalElijah, Prophecies OfRainMiracles Of ElijahPrayer, Offered WithAsking PermissionThree And A Half YearsLack Of RainLike People By NatureGod Answered PrayerMonthsPassion

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!” Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfBaal Worship, HistoryElijah, Prophecies OfElijah, Life Ofdrought, physicaldewLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPrayerfulnessRainWeather, As God's JudgmentMiracles Of ElijahCrowsImmigrants

The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
Verse ConceptsVeilsShaming People

I call to You, Lord,
for fire has consumed
the pastures of the wilderness,
and flames have devoured
all the trees of the countryside.
Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodBurning PlantsHarming TreesI Pray

I also withheld the rain from you
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.
Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalHarvestRainWeather, As God's JudgmentTwo To Four MonthsVariety Of Form

I have summoned a drought
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, olive oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all that your hands produce.”
Verse Conceptsdrought, physicalOilShortage Of WineProvision Of OilBoth Men And Animals AffectedDoing One's Work

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. Verse ConceptsAnswered Prayerdrought, physicalElijah, Prophecies OfRainMiracles Of ElijahPrayer, Offered WithAsking PermissionThree And A Half YearsLack Of RainLike People By NatureGod Answered PrayerMonthsPassion

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!” Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfBaal Worship, HistoryElijah, Prophecies OfElijah, Life Ofdrought, physicaldewLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPrayerfulnessRainWeather, As God's JudgmentMiracles Of ElijahCrowsImmigrants

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring of water and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.” Verse ConceptsGrassMulesFeeding AnimalsKept Alive By Men

I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.
Verse ConceptsdrynessGod Drying Things Up

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!” Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfBaal Worship, HistoryElijah, Prophecies OfElijah, Life Ofdrought, physicaldewLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPrayerfulnessRainWeather, As God's JudgmentMiracles Of ElijahCrowsImmigrants

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land. Verse ConceptsAnswered Prayerdrought, physicalElijah, Prophecies OfRainMiracles Of ElijahPrayer, Offered WithAsking PermissionThree And A Half YearsLack Of RainLike People By NatureGod Answered PrayerMonthsPassion

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.
Verse ConceptsThe Needydrought, physicalPrayer, God's Promises ConcerningTongueGod And The PoorAnswered PromisesSeeking WaterGod Not ForsakingWater, As A Symbol Of Affliction

Therefore My people will go into exile
because they lack knowledge;
her dignitaries are starving,
and her masses are parched with thirst.
Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled


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.
Verse ConceptsSpiritual Hungereagernessdrought, spiritualDeserts, SpecificBodyHeart, And Holy SpiritLonging For GodRevival, PersonalSeeking GodSymbolsThirstDry LandDry PlacesSeeking WaterYou Are Our GodartistsHeartfelt Prayer To God

For you will become like an oak
whose leaves are withered,
and like a garden without water.
Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalWicked Described AsDry PlacesPeople WitheredOaks

He will be like a juniper in the Arabah;
he cannot see when good comes
but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness,
in a salt land where no one lives.
Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsDry PlacesLiving In The WildernessEmpty By NatureSourness

In that day the beautiful young women,
the young men also, will faint from thirst.
Verse ConceptsYouthFaintingYoung People SufferingWomen's Beauty

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