'Rivers' in the Bible

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”

‘These you may eat, whatever is in the water: all that have fins and scales, those in the water, in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.

But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,

Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,And with the sole of my feet I dried upAll the rivers of Egypt.”

“He does not look at the streams,The rivers flowing with honey and curds.

For He has founded it upon the seasAnd established it upon the rivers.

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

And turned their rivers to blood,And their streams, they could not drink.

“I shall also set his hand on the seaAnd his right hand on the rivers.

Let the rivers clap their hands,Let the mountains sing together for joy

He changes rivers into a wildernessAnd springs of water into a thirsty ground;

By the rivers of Babylon,There we sat down and wept,When we remembered Zion.

All the rivers flow into the sea,Yet the sea is not full.To the place where the rivers flow,There they flow again.

“Many waters cannot quench love,Nor will rivers overflow it;If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love,It would be utterly despised.”

In that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Alas, oh land of whirring wingsWhich lies beyond the rivers of Cush,

Which sends envoys by the sea,Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,To a people feared far and wide,A powerful and oppressive nationWhose land the rivers divide.

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to the Lord of hostsFrom a people tall and smooth,Even from a people feared far and wide,A powerful and oppressive nation,Whose land the rivers divide—To the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, even Mount Zion.

But there the majestic One, the Lord, will be for usA place of rivers and wide canalsOn which no boat with oars will go,And on which no mighty ship will pass—

‘I dug wells and drank waters,And with the sole of my feet I dried upAll the rivers of Egypt.’

“I will open rivers on the bare heightsAnd springs in the midst of the valleys;I will make the wilderness a pool of waterAnd the dry land fountains of water.

“I will lay waste the mountains and hillsAnd wither all their vegetation;I will make the rivers into coastlandsAnd dry up the ponds.

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;And through the rivers, they will not overflow you.When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched,Nor will the flame burn you.

“Behold, I will do something new,Now it will spring forth;Will you not be aware of it?I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,Rivers in the desert.

“The beasts of the field will glorify Me,The jackals and the ostriches,Because I have given waters in the wildernessAnd rivers in the desert,To give drink to My chosen people.

“It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’And I will make your rivers dry.

“Take the millstones and grind meal.Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

“Why was there no man when I came?When I called, why was there none to answer?Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?Or have I no power to deliver?Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke,I make the rivers a wilderness;Their fish stink for lack of waterAnd die of thirst.

Who is this that rises like the Nile,Like the rivers whose waters surge about?

Egypt rises like the Nile,Even like the rivers whose waters surge about;And He has said, “I will rise and cover that land;I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.”

Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers,That has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’

“I will put hooks in your jawsAnd make the fish of your rivers cling to your scales.And I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,And all the fish of your rivers will cling to your scales.

“I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers;You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered.I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.

‘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.

‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,‘You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations,Yet you are like the monster in the seas;And you burst forth in your riversAnd muddied the waters with your feetAnd fouled their rivers.’”

“Then I will make their waters settleAnd will cause their rivers to run like oil,”Declares the Lord God.

Does the Lord take delight in thousands of rams,In ten thousand rivers of oil?Shall I present my firstborn for my rebellious acts,The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;He dries up all the rivers.Bashan and Carmel wither;The blossoms of Lebanon wither.

The gates of the rivers are openedAnd the palace is dissolved.

Did the Lord rage against the rivers,Or was Your anger against the rivers,Or was Your wrath against the sea,That You rode on Your horses,On Your chariots of salvation?

Your bow was made bare,The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah.You cleaved the earth with rivers.

“From beyond the rivers of EthiopiaMy worshipers, My dispersed ones,Will bring My offerings.