'Waters' in the Bible

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

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

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

At Your rebuke the waters fled;at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,So that they will not return to cover the earth.

You send springs into the valleys;Their waters flow among the mountains.

He waters the mountains from His palace;the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

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

He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in 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 covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

He maketh rivers become a wilderness, And fountains of waters become dry land.

He maketh a wilderness become a pool of water, And a dry land become fountains of waters.

Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

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 that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep waters, that they rise not up again.

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy with waters,

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

The generous man will be prosperous,And he who waters will himself be watered.

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.

The intentions of a person's heart are deep waters, but a discerning person reveals them.

Rivulets of waters is the heart of a king in the hand of Jehovah, Wherever He pleaseth He inclineth it.

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

As the waters [reflect] {face to face}, so the heart of a person [reflects] the person.

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

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:

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Your silver has become [as] dross; Your wine [is] diluted with waters.

Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;

Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

"It's the king of Assyria and all of his arrogance! He will rise over all of the river's channels and run over all of its banks. He will sweep on into Judah, overflowing as he passes through, like flood waters reaching up to a person's neck. His outstretched wings will flow as wide as your land, O Immanuel!"

They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

And ye have drawn waters with joy Out of the fountains of salvation,

And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Desert of the Sea (the seasonally flooded plains just south of Babylon):As windstorms in the Negev (the South) sweep through,So it (God’s judgment) comes from the desert, from [the hostile armies of] a terrifying land.

Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

You made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider the One who created it long ago.

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;

And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down under him as {a heap of straw is trampled down} in {waters of} a dung heap.

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

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:

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

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.

And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And each hath been as a hiding-place from wind, And as a secret hiding-place from inundation, As rivulets of waters in a dry place, As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary land.

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

I myself dug wells and drank foreign waters; with the soles of my feet I dried up all the streams of Egypt."

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring.

Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.

And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

They do not hunger, nor thirst, Nor smite them doth mirage and sun, For He who is pitying them doth lead them, And by fountains of waters doth tend them.

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, 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, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

He sent His glorious armto be at Moses’ right hand,divided the waters before themto obtain eternal fame for Himself,

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

As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

The people say, "Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.

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

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.