Raise me to a position of great honor! ¹  Turn and comfort me! ² 

He turned ¹  streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

who says to the deep sea, ‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’

Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt ¹  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. ² 

The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,

Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!

Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt says, ‘I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.’

I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.

Next to the border of Gad, at the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the Stream of Egypt ¹  and on to the Great Sea.

“Look! Enemies are gathering in the north like water rising in a river. ¹  They will be like an overflowing stream. They will overwhelm the whole country and everything in it like a flood. They will overwhelm the cities and their inhabitants. People will cry out in alarm. Everyone living in the country will cry out in pain.

Now ¹  a river flows ²  from Eden ³  to water the orchard, and from there it divides ⁴  into four headstreams. ⁵ 

and the slope of the valleys ¹  that extends to the dwelling of Ar, ²  and falls off at the border of Moab.”

There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea. ¹ 

Their border went up westward to Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the valley near ¹  Jokneam.

“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

For now ¹  you have become like these streams that are no help; ²  you see a terror, ³  and are afraid.

men ¹  who were carried off ²  before their time, ³  when the flood ⁴  was poured out ⁵  on their foundations? ⁶ 

He draws up drops of water; they distill ¹  the rain into its mist, ² 

From the north he comes in golden splendor; ¹  around God is awesome majesty.

He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.