After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
The ravens would bring him bread and meat each morning and evening, and he would drink from the stream.
The Lord told him,
If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced,” says the Lord, the one who has compassion on you.
Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the grassy pastures.
He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.