Quotes About Drought

Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around.

The Rohkohn Hao, Tahneh, was sharing her evening meal with her chief judge and discussing the current drought when she first learned of the foreigners who had entered her territory.

Almost as soon as I arrived back at Njoro, it began to rain for the first time in over a year. The sky went black, splitting open with a deluge that didn't want to stop.

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.

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!”

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

but ceasing in the dry season and vanishing from their channels in the heat.

If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

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

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

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

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

For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.

There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

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.

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.”