33 He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground, 34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. 35 He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
Psalms 107:33–35
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Psalms 114:7–8
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
2 Esdras 16:59–61
59 He has spread out the sky like a vault. He has founded it over the waters. (WEB) 60 He has made springs of water in the desert and pools on the tops of the mountains to send out rivers from the heights to water the earth. (WEB) 61 He formed man, and put a heart in the midst of t… (WEB)
Job 38:25–27
25 Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt, 26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives, 27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
Psalms 78:14–16
14 He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night. 15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas. 16 He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.
Sirach 39:22–24
22 His blessing covered the dry land as a river and saturated it as a flood. (WEB) 23 As he has made the waters salty, so the heathen will inherit his wrath. (WEB) 24 His ways are plain to the holy. They are stumbling blocks to the wicked. (WEB)
Psalms 78:43–45
43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan. 44 He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink. 45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.
Job 12:14–16
14 What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released. 15 If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land. 16 True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.
Psalms 74:14–16
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert. 15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. 16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
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