Lexicon :: Strong's G504 - anydros

He found him in a desolate land,

in a barren, howling wilderness;

he surrounded him, cared for him,

and protected him as the pupil of his eye.

Emaciated from poverty and hunger,

they gnawed the dry land,

the desolate wasteland by night.

God, you are my God; I eagerly seek you.

I thirst for you;

my body faints for you

in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.

But they continued to sin against him,

rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

How often they rebelled against him

in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert.

He opened a rock, and water gushed out;

it flowed like a stream in the desert.

They were seized with craving in the wilderness

and tested God in the desert.

Some wandered in the desolate wilderness,

finding no way to a city where they could live.

He turns a desert into a pool,

dry land into springs.

I spread out my hands to you;

I am like parched land before you.Selah

“If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit;

if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”

the parched ground will become a pool,

and the thirsty land, springs.

In the haunt of jackals, in their lairs,

there will be grass, reeds, and papyrus.

I will plant cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive trees

in the wilderness.

I will put juniper, elm, and cypress trees together

in the desert,

“Look, I am about to do something new;

even now it is coming. Do you not see it?

Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,

rivers[fn] in the desert.

“For I will pour water on the thirsty land

and streams on the dry ground;

I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants

and my blessing on your offspring.

They stopped asking, “Where is the LORD

who brought us from the land of Egypt,

who led us through the wilderness,

through a land of deserts and ravines,

through a land of drought and darkness,[fn]

a land no one traveled through

and where no one lived? ”

Her cities have become a desolation,

an arid desert,

a land where no one lives,

where no human being even passes through.

“Now it is planted in the wilderness,

in a dry and thirsty land.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked

and expose her as she was on the day of her birth.

I will make her like a desert

and like a parched land,

and I will let her die of thirst.

I will drive the northerner far from you

and banish him to a dry and desolate land,

his front ranks into the Dead Sea,

and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea.

His stench will rise;

yes, his rotten smell will rise,

for he has done astonishing things.

He will also stretch out his hand against the north

and destroy Assyria;

he will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,

dry as the desert.