If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land. Cross References Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside. Deuteronomy 11:17 or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you. 1 Kings 8:35 When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, 1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As surely as the LORD lives--the God of Israel before whom I stand--there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!" Job 28:25 When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters, Treasury of Scripture Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth. Behold Job 12:10 Genesis 8:1,2 1 Kings 8:35,36 he sendeth Genesis 6:13,17 Genesis 7:11,23 Psalm 104:7-9 |