Quotes about Drought

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

The waters of the Nile will dry up, and the riverbed will be parched and empty.

The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.

For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.

The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

The Negeb, the south of Israel, is a vast desert. The watercourses of the Negeb are a network of ditches cut into the soil by wind and rain erosion. For most of the year they are baked dry under the sun, but a sudden rain makes the desert ablaze with blossoms. Our lives are like that—drought-stricken—and then, suddenly, the long years of barren waiting are interrupted by God's invasion of grace.

I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: