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Nahum 1:4

He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.

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ASV

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

KJV

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
גּוֹעֵ֤רgo.'Er[he is] rebukingH1605 →
בַּיָּם֙bai.Yam<in> the seaH3220 →
וַֽיַּבְּשֵׁ֔הוּvai.ya.be.She.huand he made dry itH3001 →
וְכָל־ve.kholand allH3605 →
הַנְּהָר֖וֹתha.ne.ha.Rotthe riversH5104 →
הֶֽחֱרִ֑יבhe.che.Rivhe dries upH2717 →
אֻמְלַ֤ל'um.Lalit withersH535 →
בָּשָׁן֙ba.ShanBashanH1316 →
וְכַרְמֶ֔לve.khar.Meland CarmelH3760 →
וּפֶ֥רַחu.Fe.rachand [the] blossom ofH6525 →
לְבָנ֖וֹןle.va.NonLebanonH3844 →
אֻמְלָֽל׃'um.Lalit withersH535 →

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Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.Psalms 89:9You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; He led them through the depths as through a desert.Isaiah 33:9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.Isaiah 50:2Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;Isaiah 50:2–3Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—Isaiah 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’Joshua 3:13–15When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”Psalms 114:3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;Isaiah 51:10Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?Psalms 114:5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,Psalms 74:15You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.Isaiah 19:5–10The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—Amos 1:2He said: “The LORD roars from Zion and raises His voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the summit of Carmel withers.”

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