Thematic Bible: Drought
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Drought » General reference to
Jehovah will become angry with you. He will shut the sky and there will be no rain. Then the ground will not grow any crops. You will quickly disappear from this good land Jehovah is giving you.
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It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.
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He was the one who led you through that vast and dangerous wilderness. It was a parched, arid land, with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He was the one who made water come out of solid rock for you.
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When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you,
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They did not ask: 'Where is Jehovah who brought us from Egypt? He led us through the desert, through a wasteland and its pits, a land of drought and the shadow of death. No one lives there or travels there.'
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Jehovah will send dust storms and sandstorms on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
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I took care of you in the desert, in a dry land.
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Drought » Instances of
Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
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There is no rain in the land and the ground is cracked. The farmers are disappointed. They cover their heads.
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I cry to you Jehovah! For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame burned all the trees of the field.
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I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One received rain. The other did not receive rain and it dried up.
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I brought drought on the land and its hills, grain fields, vineyards, and olive orchards. Yes drought on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.
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Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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Drought » Sent by God as a judgment
When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you,
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The sky above will look like copper and the ground below will be as hard as iron. Jehovah will send dust storms and sandstorms on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
When the sky is shut and there is no rain because they are sinning against you and they pray toward this place, praise your name, and turn away from their sin because you made them suffer,
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I may shut the sky so that there is no rain, or command grasshoppers to devour the countryside, or send an epidemic among my people.
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The people of Ephraim have become important among their relatives. However, Jehovah's scorching wind will come from the east. It will blow out of the desert. Then their springs will run dry, and their wells will dry up. The wind will destroy every precious thing in their storehouses.
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Drought » Figurative
Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.
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I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring. I will give blessing to your descendants.
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Elijah » Miracles of » Drought
Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
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Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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God » God's Judgments » Drought » General references to » Examples of
Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
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There is no rain in the land and the ground is cracked. The farmers are disappointed. They cover their heads.
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I cry to you Jehovah! For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame burned all the trees of the field.
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I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One received rain. The other did not receive rain and it dried up.
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I brought drought on the land and its hills, grain fields, vineyards, and olive orchards. Yes drought on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.
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Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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Grass » Destroyed by » Drought
Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
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Ahab said to Obadiah: Come! Let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers. Let us see if there is any grass for the horses and the transport beasts. We must save some of the livestock.
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Herbs » Destroyed by » Drought
I will destroy the hills and mountains and dry up the grass and trees. I will turn the river valleys into deserts and dry up the pools of water.
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Miracles » Of elijah » Drought
Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
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Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
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Spiritual » Desire select readings, psalms 42; 84 » Drought
The poor and needy search for water, but there is none! Their tongues are parched with thirst. But I Jehovah will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
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My people will go into exile because they do not understand what I am doing. Honored men will starve, and common people will be parched with thirst.
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God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
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([[Psalm of David] in the wilderness of Judah:]) O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. I thirst for you. My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.
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You will be like an oak whose leaves wither and like a garden without water.
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He will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes. He will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant.
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In that day the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
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