1Ki 17:1-7, Isa 13:19-21, 19:5-10, 34:9-10, 42:15, 44:27, 50:2 | ESV | STEP | Now Elijah the Tishbite , of Tishbe in Gilead , said to Ahab , As the Lord , the God of Israel , lives , before whom I stand , there shall be neither dew nor rain these years , except by my word .

1 Kings 17:1-7

Elijah Predicts a Drought

1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of ^aTishbe ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers} in Gilead, said to Ahab, ^c“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, ^dbefore whom I stand, ^ethere shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” 2 And the word of the Lord came to him: 3 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. 4 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.” 5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 7 And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

Isaiah 13:19-21

19 And Babylon, ^fthe glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be ^glike Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 ^hIt will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no ⁱArab will pitch his tent there;
no ^jshepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But ^kwild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^lostriches ^{▼▼Or owls} will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.

Isaiah 19:5-10

5 And the waters of the sea will be dried up,
and the river will be dry and parched,
6 and its canals will become foul,
and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up,
reeds and rushes will rot away.
7 There will be bare places by the Nile,
on the brink of the Nile,
and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched,
will be driven away, and will be no more.
8 The ⁿfishermen will mourn and lament,
all who cast a hook in the Nile;
and they will languish
who spread nets on the water.
9 The workers in ^ocombed flax will be in despair,
and the weavers of white cotton.
10 Those who are the ^ppillars of the land will be crushed,
and all who ^qwork for pay will be grieved.

Isaiah 34:9-10

9 ^rAnd the streams of Edom ^{▼▼Hebrew her streams} shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day ^tit shall not be quenched;
^uits smoke shall go up forever.
^vFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.

Isaiah 42:15

15 ^wI will lay waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands, ^{▼▼Or into coastlands}
and dry up the pools.

Isaiah 44:27

27 ^ywho says to the deep, ‘Be dry;
I will dry up your rivers’;

Isaiah 50:2

2 ^zWhy, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
^aaIs my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
^abBehold, by my rebuke ^acI dry up the sea,
^adI make the rivers a desert;
^aetheir fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.