'Waters' in the Bible

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish.

His hand made the rock open, and the waters came streaming out; they went down through the dry places like a river.

By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

And the waters went over their haters; all of them came to an end.

They made God angry again at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled because of them;

Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in the great waters;

The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.

When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?

Put out your bread on the face of the waters; for after a long time it will come back to you again.

You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.

Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;

For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:

And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.

There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.

The waters of Nimrim will become dry: for the grass is burned up, the young grass is coming to an end, every green thing is dead.

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land.

Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!

Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.

And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;

Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places.

And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

Ho! everyone in need, come to the waters, and he who has no strength, let him get food: come, get bread without money; wine and milk without price.

But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.

He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;

He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

Will the white snow go away from the top of Sirion? will the cold waters flowing from the mountains become dry?

They took their men and went out to make war on Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and they came face to face with him by the great waters in Gibeon.

Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?

Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people.

This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.

The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.

A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.

O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:

Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.