'Rivers' in the Bible

The LORD also told Moses, "Tell Aaron, "Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their Nile River, over their ponds, and over their reservoirs, and they'll become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in their wood and stone containers.'"

Then the LORD told Moses, "Tell Aaron, "Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the Nile River, and over the ponds, and bring up frogs over the land of Egypt.'"

"You may eat anything that lives in the water that is, you may eat anything that has fins and scales either from the seas or from the rivers.

But anything that doesn't have fins or scales whether from the seas or the rivers any of the swarming creatures and living creatures in the waters are detestable for you.

because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills.

Aren't the Abana and Pharpar rivers in Damascus better than all of the water in Israel? Couldn't I just bathe in them and become clean?" So he turned away and left, filled with anger.

But my brothers have acted treacherously like a cascading river, like torrential rivers that overflow.

When he withholds water, rivers dry up; when he lets them loose, they'll flood the land.

He won't look at the rivers the torrents of honey and curd.

He dams up flowing rivers, bringing hidden things to light."

The cords of death entangled me; the rivers of Belial made me afraid.

You opened both the spring and the river; you dried up flowing rivers.

He turned their rivers into blood and made their streams undrinkable.

I will place his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.

The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.

let the rivers clap their hands in unison; and let the mountains sing for joy

He causes springs to gush forth into rivers that flow between the mountains.

He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into dry ground,

My eyes shed rivers of tears, when others do not obey your instruction. Tsade

There we sat down and cried by the rivers of Babylon as we remembered Zion.

All the rivers flow toward the sea, but the sea is never full; then rivers return to the headwaters where they began.

Mighty bodies of water cannot extinguish love, rivers cannot put it out. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, he would surely be viewed with contempt.

"At that time, the LORD will call for flies that will come from far away from the headwaters of Egypt's rivers and for bees that are in the land of Assyria.

Woe to the land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush,

which sends envoys by the sea, in papyrus boats over the water! Go, swift messengers, to a tall, smooth-skinned nation, to a people feared far and wide, a nation that metes out punishment and oppresses, whose land the rivers divide.

At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of the Heavenly Armies from a tall and smooth-skinned people, from a people feared far and wide, a nation that metes out punishment and oppresses, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place that bears the name of the LORD.

But there the LORD in majesty will be for us our source of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, where no stately ship can sail.

I'll open up rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I'll turn the desert into a pool of water, and the parched land into springs of water.

I'll devastate the mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I'll turn rivers into islands, and dry up the ponds.

When you pass through the waters, I'll be with you; and through the rivers, they won't sweep over you. when you walk through fire you won't be scorched, and the flame won't set you ablaze.

who says to the watery deep, "Be dry I will dry up your rivers;"

Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

Why is it that when I came, no one was there? Why was there no answer when I called? Was my arm too short to redeem you? Do I lack the strength to rescue you? Look! By my mere rebuke I dry up the sea, I turn rivers into a desert. Their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

Egypt is rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He says, "I'll rise and cover the land. I'll destroy the city and its inhabitants.'

My eyes run with rivers of tears over the destruction of my cherished people.

Abundant water made it great, Subterranean rivers made it grow. Rivers surrounded the area where it had been planted, and water channels nourished all the trees in the fields.

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "On the day that it descended into Sheol, I shut down its water supplies, covered over its deep water, and shut down its rivers. As a result its abundant water sources dried up, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for it. All the trees of the field wilted because of it.

"Son of Man, start singing this lamentation about Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Tell him, "You may have called yourself a lion among nations, but you're a monster at sea. You thrash about in your rivers, muddy the water with your feet, and relieve yourself in the rivers.'

I'm going to destroy all of its livestock along its many riverbanks. Human feet won't muddy the rivers anymore, nor will the hooves of livestock stir up the water.

That's when I'll make their waterways flow smoothly, and their rivers flow like olive oil,' declares the Lord GOD."

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with endless rivers of oil? Am I to give my firstborn to pay for my rebellion, the fruit of my body in exchange for my soul?

He rebukes the sea, and it evaporates; he dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, while the flowers of Lebanon languish.

Was the LORD displeased with the rivers? Was your anger directed against the watercourses or your wrath against the sea? Indeed, you rode upon your horses, upon your chariots of deliverance.

Your bow was exposed, and your arrows targeted by command. Interlude You split the earth with rivers.

"From beyond the rivers of Sudan my worshipers including my dispersed people will present offerings to me.