Nahum 1:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

Cross References

Genesis 8:1

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

Job 38:11

And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

Psalm 104:7

At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;

Psalm 106:9

By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

Psalm 114:3

The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

Psalm 114:5

What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

Psalm 18:16

He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

Psalm 74:15

You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

Isaiah 33:9

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.

Isaiah 42:15

I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

Isaiah 44:27

Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:

Isaiah 51:10

Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

Ezekiel 30:12

And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.

Ezekiel 38:20

So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

Amos 1:2

And he said, The Lord will give a lion's cry from Zion, his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the fields of the keepers of sheep will become dry, and the top of Carmel will be wasted away.

Amos 5:8

Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

Matthew 8:26

And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

Joshua 3:16

Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.