'Waters' in the Bible

"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

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

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

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

To him who spread out the earth above the waters; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved

Many waters can't quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. Friends

"Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green thing.

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, "Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!"

The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.

Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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 burned, and flame will not scorch you.

Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

"Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

Isn't it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

"For this is like the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

"Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don't fail.

who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?

as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!

"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.

Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

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

When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings.

He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.