Gen 31:40

(NIV)
This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
(ESV)
There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Deut 8:15

(NIV)
He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.
(ESV)
who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

Judg 6:37

(NIV)
look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing-floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.’
(ESV)
behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.”

Judg 6:39

(NIV)
Then Gideon said to God, ‘Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.’
(ESV)
Then Gideon said to God, “Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

Judg 6:40

(NIV)
That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.

(ESV)
And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.

Job 24:19

(NIV)
As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,
so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
(ESV)
Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
so does Sheol those who have sinned.

Job 30:3

(NIV)
Haggard from want and hunger,
they roamed the parched land
in desolate wastelands at night.
(ESV)
Through want and hard hunger
they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;

Job 30:30

(NIV)
My skin grows black and peels;
my body burns with fever.
(ESV)
My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.

Ps 32:4

(NIV)
For day and night
your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was sapped
as in the heat of summer.
(ESV)
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.  Selah

(NIV)

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

(ESV)

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

Ps 63:1

(NIV)
You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
(ESV)
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Ps 78:17

(NIV)
But they continued to sin against him,
rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
(ESV)
Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Ps 105:41

(NIV)
He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a river in the desert.
(ESV)
He opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed through the desert like a river.

Ps 107:33

(NIV)
He turned rivers into a desert,
flowing springs into thirsty ground,
(ESV)
He turns rivers into a desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,

Ps 107:35

(NIV)
He turned the desert into pools of water
and the parched ground into flowing springs;
(ESV)
He turns a desert into pools of water,
a parched land into springs of water.

Isa 4:6

(NIV)
It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding-place from the storm and rain.

(ESV)
There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

Isa 25:4

(NIV)
You have been a refuge for the poor,
a refuge for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the storm
and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless
is like a storm driving against a wall
(ESV)
For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Isa 25:5

(NIV)
and like the heat of the desert.
You silence the uproar of foreigners;
as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
(ESV)
like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
as heat by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is put down.

Isa 35:1

(NIV)
The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus,
(ESV)
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;

Isa 35:7

(NIV)
The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
(ESV)
the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down,
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

Isa 41:18

(NIV)
I will make rivers flow on barren heights,
and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert into pools of water,
and the parched ground into springs.
(ESV)
I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.

Isa 53:2

(NIV)
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
(ESV)
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.

Isa 58:11

(NIV)
The Lord will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.
(ESV)
And the Lord will guide you continually
and satisfy your desire in scorched places
and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.

Isa 61:4

(NIV)
They will rebuild the ancient ruins
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.
(ESV)
They shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.

Jer 2:6

(NIV)
They did not ask, “Where is the Lord,
who brought us up out of Egypt
and led us through the barren wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
a land of drought and utter darkness,
a land where no one travels and no one lives?”
(ESV)
They did not say, Where is the Lord
who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us in the wilderness,
in a land of deserts and pits,
in a land of drought and deep darkness,
in a land that none passes through,
where no man dwells?’

Jer 14:1

(NIV)
This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

(ESV)
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Jer 17:8

(NIV)
They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.’
(ESV)
He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Jer 36:30

(NIV)
Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: he will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.
(ESV)
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.

Jer 49:13

(NIV)
I swear by myself,’ declares the Lord, ‘that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse, an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruins for ever.’

(ESV)
For I have sworn by myself, declares the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”

Jer 50:12

(NIV)
your mother will be greatly ashamed;
she who gave you birth will be disgraced.
She will be the least of the nations –
a wilderness, a dry land, a desert.
(ESV)
your mother shall be utterly shamed,
and she who bore you shall be disgraced.
Behold, she shall be the last of the nations,
a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jer 50:38

(NIV)
A drought on her waters!
They will dry up.
For it is a land of idols,
idols that will go mad with terror.
(ESV)
A drought against her waters,
that they may be dried up!
For it is a land of images,
and they are mad over idols.

Jer 51:43

(NIV)
Her towns will be desolate,
a dry and desert land,
a land where no one lives,
through which no one travels.
(ESV)
Her cities have become a horror,
a land of drought and a desert,
a land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.

Ezek 19:13

(NIV)
Now it is planted in the desert,
in a dry and thirsty land.
(ESV)
Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land.

Ezek 29:10

(NIV)
therefore I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt a ruin and a desolate waste from Migdol to Aswan, as far as the border of Cush.
(ESV)
therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

Hos 2:3

(NIV)
Otherwise I will strip her naked
and make her as bare as on the day she was born;
I will make her like a desert,
turn her into a parched land,
and slay her with thirst.
(ESV)
lest I strip her naked
and make her as in the day she was born,
and make her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.

Hos 13:5

(NIV)
I cared for you in the wilderness,
in the land of burning heat.
(ESV)
It was I who knew you in the wilderness,
in the land of drought;

Joel 2:20

(NIV)
‘I will drive the northern horde far from you,
pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench will go up;
its smell will rise.’
Surely he has done great things!
(ESV)
“I will remove the northerner far from you,
and drive him into a parched and desolate land,
his vanguard into the eastern sea,
and his rear guard into the western sea;
the stench and foul smell of him will rise,
for he has done great things.

Zeph 2:13

(NIV)
He will stretch out his hand against the north
and destroy Assyria,
leaving Nineveh utterly desolate
and dry as the desert.
(ESV)
And he will stretch out his hand against the north
and destroy Assyria,
and he will make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.

Zeph 2:14

(NIV)
Flocks and herds will lie down there,
creatures of every kind.
The desert owl and the screech owl
will roost on her columns.
Their hooting will echo through the windows,
rubble will fill the doorways,
the beams of cedar will be exposed.
(ESV)
Herds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts;
even the owl and the hedgehog
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for her cedar work will be laid bare.

Hag 1:11

(NIV)
I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labour of your hands.’

(ESV)
And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”

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