Lexicon :: Strong's H3001 - yāḇēš

Now it happened when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted [in despair], and there was no [fighting] spirit in them any longer because of the Israelites [and what God had done for them].

“While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down,

Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].

“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;

Again, He sends the waters out, and they overwhelm and devastate the earth.

“As water evaporates from the sea,

And a river drains and dries up,

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];

The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,

And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

“The roots [of the wicked] are dried up below,

And above, his branch is cut off and withers.

My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;

And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;

And You have laid me in the dust of death.

You broke open fountains and streams;

You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

In the morning it flourishes and springs up;

In the evening it wilts and withers away.

My heart has been struck like grass and withered,

Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];

And as for me, I wither away like grass.

Let them be like the grass on the housetops,

Which withers before it grows up,

A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing,

But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.

Indeed the grass is withered, the new growth dies;

There is no green thing.

The waters from the sea will dry up,

And the river will be parched and dry.

The meadows by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile,

And all the sown fields of the Nile

Will become dry, be blown away, and be no more.

When its branches are dry, they are broken off;

The women come and [fn]make a fire with them.

For they are not a people of understanding,

Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,

And He who created them will not be gracious to them.

The grass withers, the flower fades,

When the breath of the LORD blows upon it;

Most certainly [all] the people are [like] grass.

Scarcely have they been planted,

Scarcely have they been sown,

Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth,

But He merely blows on them, and they wither,

And a strong wind carries them away like stubble.

“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.

“Were they ashamed because they had committed disgusting and vile things?

No, they were not at all ashamed;

They did not even know how to blush [at their idolatry].

Therefore they will fall among those who fall;

At the time that I punish them

They will be overthrown,” says the LORD.

“Were they ashamed because of the extremely disgusting and shamefully vile things they had done?

They were not at all ashamed,

And they did not know how to blush.

Therefore, they shall fall among those who fall;

At the time of their punishment they shall be overthrown,”

Says the LORD.

Every man has become [like a brute] irrational and stupid, without knowledge [of God];

Every goldsmith is shamed by his carved idols;

For his molten images are frauds and lies,

And there is no breath in them.

How long must the land mourn

And the grass of the countryside wither?

Because of the wickedness and hypocrisy of those who live in it,

The beasts and the birds are consumed and are swept away [by the drought],

Because men [mocking me] have said, “He will not [live long enough to] see [what happens at] our final end.”

For the land is full of adulterers (unfaithful to God);

The land mourns because of the curse [of God upon it].

The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

The course of action [of the false prophets] is evil and they rush into wickedness;

And their power is not right.

“The Daughter of Egypt has been shamed,

Given over to the power of the people of the north [the Chaldeans of Babylonia].”

Concerning [fn]Moab.

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,

“Woe (judgment is coming) to [the city of] [fn]Nebo, for it has been destroyed!

Kiriathaim has been shamed, it has been captured;

Misgab [the high fortress] has been shamed, broken down and crushed.

“Moab is shamed, for she has been broken down and shattered.

Wail and cry out!

Tell by [the banks of] the Arnon

That Moab has been destroyed.

“Declare among the nations.

Lift up a signal [to spread the news]—publish and proclaim it,

Do not conceal it; say,

‘Babylon has been taken,

Bel [the patron god] has been shamed, [fn]Marduk (Bel) has been shattered.

Babylon’s images have been shamed, her [worthless] idols have been thrown down.’

“A drought on her waters, and they will dry up!

For it is a land of [worthless] idols,

And they are mad over fearsome idols [those objects of terror in which they foolishly trust].

Every man has become stupid and brutelike, without knowledge [of God];

Every goldsmith is shamed by the cast images he has made;

For his molten idols are a lie,

And there is no breath [of life] or spirit in them.

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.

Their appearance is [now] blacker than soot [because of the prolonged famine];

They are not recognized in the streets;

Their skin clings to their bones;

It is withered, and it has become [dry] like wood.

‘But the vine was uprooted in [godly] wrath [by His representative]

And it was thrown down to the ground;

The east wind dried up its fruit.

Its strong branch was broken off

So that it withered;

The fire [of God’s judgment] consumed it.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

“For their mother has played the prostitute;

She who conceived them has acted shamefully,

For she said, ‘I will pursue my lovers

Who give me my food and my water,

My wool and my flax, my oil and my [refreshing] drinks.’