Lexicon :: Strong's H2717 - ḥāraḇ

Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah’s life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.

When the people saw Samson, they praised their god, for they said,

“Our god has handed over our enemy to us,

The ravager of our country,

Who has killed many of us.”

“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,

And with the sole of my feet I dried up

All the rivers of [the Lower Nile of] Egypt.”

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in—how Jerusalem is desolate and lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, and let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”

“As water evaporates from the sea,

And a river drains and dries up,

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;

And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.

The waters from the sea will dry up,

And the river will be parched and dry.

The burning will not be quenched night or day;

Its smoke will go up forever.

From generation to generation it will lie in ruins;

No one will ever again pass through it.

‘I dug wells and drank [foreign] waters,

And with the sole of my feet I dried up

All the canals [of the Nile] of Egypt.’

“I will lay waste the mountains and hills

And wither all their vegetation;

I will turn the rivers into coastlands

And dry up the ponds.

“It is I who says to the deep, ‘Be dried up!’

And I will make your rivers dry.

“Your [fn]builders hurry;

Your destroyers and devastators

Will go away from you.

“Why, when I came, was there no man [to greet Me]?

When I called, why was there no one to answer?

Is My hand really so short that it cannot redeem [My servants]?

Or have I no power to rescue?

Listen carefully, with My rebuke I dry up the sea,

I make the rivers into a desert;

Their fish stink because there is no water

And die of thirst.

Was it not You who dried up the [Red] Sea,

The waters of the great deep,

Who made the depths of the sea a pathway

For the redeemed to cross over?

“For the nation or the kingdom which will not serve you [Jerusalem] shall perish,

And the nations [that refuse to serve] shall be utterly ruined.

“Be appalled, O heavens, at this;

Be shocked and shudder with horror [at the behavior of the people],” says the LORD.

“Go against [Babylon] the land of Merathaim (Double Rebellion),

Go up against it and against the people of Pekod (Punishment).

Kill and utterly destroy them,” says the LORD,

“And do everything that I have commanded you.”

Kill all her young bulls [her strength—her young men];

Let them go down to the slaughter!

Woe (judgment is coming) to the Chaldeans, for their day has come,

The time of their punishment.

Therefore thus says the LORD,

“Behold, I will plead your case

And take full vengeance for you;

I will dry up her sea and great reservoir

And make her fountain dry.

‘He destroyed their palaces

And he flattened their cities;

And the land and all who were in it were appalled

By the sound of his roaring.

For thus says the Lord GOD, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and great waters cover you,

“And they will be desolate

In the midst of countries that are desolated;

And her cities will be

Among cities that are devastated [by plunder and slavery].

For though he flourishes among the reeds (his fellow tribes),

An east wind (Assyria) will come,

The breath of the LORD rising from the desert;

And Ephraim’s spring will become dry

And his fountain will be dried up.

Assyria will plunder his treasury of every precious object.

“And the [idolatrous] high places of Isaac (Israel) will be devastated and deserted,

And the sanctuaries of Israel will be in ruins.

Then I shall rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword [and destroy the monarchy].”

He rebukes the sea and dries it up;

He dries up all the rivers [illustrating His judgment].

Bashan [on the east] and [Mount] Carmel [on the west] wither,

And [in the north] the blossoms of Lebanon fade.

“I [the LORD] have cut off and destroyed nations [as a warning to Judah];

Their corner towers (battlements) are in ruins.

I have made their streets desolate

So that no one passes by;

Their cities are destroyed

So that there is no man, there is no inhabitant.