He will not look on the streams, ¹  the rivers, which are the torrents ²  of honey and butter. ³ 

He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

I will place his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers. ¹ 

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

The land of buzzing wings is as good as dead, ¹  the one beyond the rivers of Cush,

He caused streams to flow from the rock, and made the water flow like rivers.

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

From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, ¹  those who pray to me ²  will bring me tribute.

Then ¹  the third angel ²  poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

You broke open the spring and the stream; ¹  you dried up perpetually flowing rivers. ² 

All the streams flow ¹  into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again. ² 

By the rivers of Babylon we sit down and weep ²  when we remember Zion.

Let the rivers clap their hands! Let the mountains sing in unison

“Who is this that rises like the Nile, like its streams ¹  turbulent at flood stage?

Is the Lord mad at the rivers? Are you angry with the rivers? Are you enraged at the sea? ¹  Is this why ²  you climb into your horse-drawn chariots, ³  your victorious chariots? ⁴ 

He shouts a battle cry ¹  against the sea ²  and makes it dry up; ³  he makes all the rivers ⁴  run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; ⁵  the blossom of Lebanon withers.

Your bow is ready for action; ¹  you commission your arrows. ²  Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface. ³ 

I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; ¹  I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, ²  and dry up pools of water. ³ 

let the one who believes in me drink. ¹  Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him ²  will flow rivers of living water.’” ³ 

Then I will make their waters calm, ¹  and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.