When He withholds the waters, everything dries up, and when He releases them, they destroy the land.

他把水留住，水便枯干；他再发出水来，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

祂拦住水源，便有干旱；祂放开水源，大地被淹没。

他若把水阻截，水就干涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他把水留住，水便枯乾；他再發出水來，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

祂攔住水源，便有乾旱；祂放開水源，大地被淹沒。

他若把水阻截，水就乾涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他若抑制住水，水便乾了；他再送出水來，水就使地翻覆。

止水則水涸、出之則地淹、

止溪流而水涸、裂泉脈而地淹、

止水則水涸、使水流出則氾濫於地、氾濫於地原文作翻地

If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

If he holds back the water, everything dries up. If he lets the water loose, it floods the land.

If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert. If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.

When he withholds water, everything dries up, and when he releases it, it destroys the land.

Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

If He withholds the waters, they dry up; If He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers, said to Ahab,“ As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”

These men have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.

The One 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 out over the face of the earth— Yahweh is His name.

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

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

When the skies are shut and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and praise Your name, and they turn from their sins because You are afflicting them,may You hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way they should walk in. May You send rain on Your land that You gave Your people for an inheritance.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,and the rain fell on the earth 40 days and 40 nights.On that same day Noah along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah’s wife, and his three sons’ wives entered the ark with him.They entered it with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, the creatures that crawl on the earth according to their kinds, all birds, every fowl, and everything with wings according to their kinds.Two of all flesh that has the breath of life in it entered the ark with Noah.Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered just as God had commanded him. Then the Lord shut him in.The flood continued for 40 days on the earth; the waters increased and lifted up the ark so that it rose above the earth.The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet.Every creature perished— those that crawl on the earth, birds, livestock, wildlife, and those that swarm on the earth, as well as all mankind.Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils— everything on dry land died.He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.And the waters surged on the earth 150 days.God remembered Noah, as well as all the wildlife and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water began to subside.The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours; yet he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its fruit.

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

Then God said to Noah,“ I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—mountains rose and valleys sank— to the place You established for them.You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never cover the earth again.

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are You not the Lord our God? We therefore put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

“ Understand that I am bringing a flood— floodwaters on the earth to destroy every creature under heaven with the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will die.

Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.