Quotes About Water

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave its rocky slopes? Or do its cool waters flowing from a distance ever run dry?

Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.

“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ëThey will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

Then I bathed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.

But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.

Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant waters.

And when they ask, ëWhy are you groaning?í you are to say, ëBecause of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.í Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”

Now speak a parable to this rebellious house and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ëPut the pot on the fire; put it on and pour in the water.

For this is what the Lord GOD says: ëWhen I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.

It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters.

Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,í declares the Lord GOD.

I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.

Next he brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and there I saw the water trickling out from the south side.

As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.

Then he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through knee-deep water. Again he measured a thousand cubits and led me through waist-deep water.

Once again he measured off a thousand cubits, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough for swimming—a river that could not be crossed on foot.

And he said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah. When it empties into the Sea, the water there becomes fresh.