If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

他把水留住，水便枯干；他再发出水来，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

祂拦住水源，便有干旱；祂放开水源，大地被淹没。

他若把水阻截，水就干涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他把水留住，水便枯乾；他再發出水來，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

祂攔住水源，便有乾旱；祂放開水源，大地被淹沒。

他若把水阻截，水就乾涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他若抑制住水，水便乾了；他再送出水來，水就使地翻覆。

止水則水涸、出之則地淹、

止溪流而水涸、裂泉脈而地淹、

止水則水涸、使水流出則氾濫於地、氾濫於地原文作翻地

If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

If he holds back the water, everything dries up. If he lets the water loose, it floods the land.

If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert. If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.

When he withholds water, everything dries up, and when he releases it, it destroys the land.

Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

If He withholds the waters, they dry up; If He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

When He withholds the waters, everything dries up, and when He releases them, they destroy the land.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“ As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name;

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

“ When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,

And God said to Noah,“ I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.

For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.