Quotes about Rivers
And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
— Exodus 8:5
Are not the Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not have washed in them and been cleansed?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
— 2 Kings 5:12
You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
— Psalm 74:15
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
— Psalm 93:3
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
— Psalm 137:1
All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
— Ecclesiastes 1:7
Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
— Song of Solomon 8:7
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
— Isaiah 18:2
The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
— Isaiah 19:6
But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.
— Isaiah 33:21
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
— Isaiah 43:20
Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
— Jeremiah 46:8