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It is a period of prolonged dryness that affects the land, leading to famine and hardship. In the biblical narrative, drought is frequently depicted as a tool used by God to communicate with His people, to discipline them, or to demonstrate His power and sovereignty.<br><br><b>Biblical Instances of Drought</b><br><br>1. <b>Elijah and the Drought in Israel</b>: One of the most notable instances of drought in the Bible is during the time of the prophet Elijah. In <a href="/1_kings/17.htm">1 Kings 17:1</a>, Elijah declares to King Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word." This drought lasted for three and a half years and was a direct result of Israel's idolatry and the worship of Baal. It served as a judgment against the nation and a challenge to the false god Baal, who was believed to control rain and fertility.<br><br>2. <b>Drought as a Covenant Curse</b>: In <a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28</a>, God outlines the blessings for obedience and curses for disobedience to His covenant. Among the curses for disobedience is drought: "The LORD will change the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed" (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-24.htm">Deuteronomy 28:24</a>). This passage underscores the conditional nature of Israel's relationship with God, where faithfulness leads to prosperity and rebellion results in calamity.<br><br>3. <b>Drought in the Time of Jeremiah</b>: The prophet Jeremiah also speaks of drought as a consequence of the people's sin. In <a href="/jeremiah/14.htm">Jeremiah 14:1-4</a>, the drought is described in vivid terms, highlighting the suffering it brings: "Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads" . This passage reflects the deep distress and humiliation that drought brings upon the people.<br><br><b>Theological Significance</b><br><br>Drought in the Bible is not merely a natural disaster but is often portrayed as a divine instrument. It serves several theological purposes:<br><br>· <b>Judgment and Discipline</b>: Drought is frequently a sign of God's judgment against sin and a call to repentance. It is a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God and the need for the people to return to Him.<br><br>· <b>Testing and Dependence</b>: Drought can also be a test of faith, as seen in the account of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath (<a href="/1_kings/17-8.htm">1 Kings 17:8-16</a>). In times of drought, God's people are called to trust in His provision and sovereignty, even when circumstances seem dire.<br><br>· <b>Divine Sovereignty</b>: The control of rain and drought underscores God's sovereignty over creation. It is a demonstration that He alone is the true God, in contrast to the false gods of the nations.<br><br><b>Prophetic and Eschatological Dimensions</b><br><br>In the prophetic literature, drought is sometimes used metaphorically to describe spiritual barrenness or the absence of God's favor. For example, <a href="/amos/8-11.htm">Amos 8:11</a> speaks of a "famine of hearing the words of the LORD," indicating a spiritual drought. Additionally, eschatological passages, such as those in Revelation, use drought imagery to describe the judgments that will occur in the end times (<a href="/revelation/11-6.htm">Revelation 11:6</a>).<br><br>Overall, drought in the Bible serves as a powerful symbol of God's interaction with His people, calling them to repentance, faith, and recognition of His ultimate authority over all creation.<a name="amt" id="amt"></a><div class="vheading2">ATS Bible Dictionary</div><span class="encheading">Drought</span><p>Was an evil to which Palestine was naturally subject, as no rain fell from May to September. During these months of summer, the ground became parched and cleft, the streams and springs became dry, and vegetation was kept from extinction by the dews at night and by artificial irrigation. If rain did not come in its season and abundantly, the distress was general and dreadful. A drought therefore is threatened as one of God's sorest judgments, <a href="/job/24-19.htm">Job 24:19</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-38.htm">Jeremiah 50:38</a> <a href="/context/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-20</a> <a href="/haggai/1-11.htm">Haggai 1:11</a>; and there are many allusions to its horrors in Scripture, De 28:23 <a href="/psalms/32-4.htm">Psalm 32:4</a> 102:4. </p><a name="eas" id="eas"></a><div class="vheading2">Easton's Bible Dictionary</div>From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (<a href="/genesis/31-40.htm">Genesis 31:40</a>; <a href="/psalms/32-4.htm">Psalm 32:4</a>), and the land suffers (<a href="/context/deuteronomy/28 .htm">Deuteronomy 28:23 </a><a href="/psalms/102-4.htm">Psalm 102:4</a>), vegetation being preserved only by the dews (<a href="/haggai/1-11.htm">Haggai 1:11</a>). (see <a href="../d/dew.htm">DEW</a>.) <a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (<I>n.</I>) Prolonged lack of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.<p>2. (<I>n.</I>) Thirst; want of drink.<p>3. (<I>n.</I>) Scarcity; lack.<a name="isb" id="isb"></a><div class="vheading2">International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</div><span class="encheading">DROUGHT</span><p>drout. See <a href="../f/famine.htm">FAMINE</a>.<p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/850b.htm"><span class="l">850b. auchmeros -- dry, squalid</span></a> <br><b>...</b> dry, squalid. Transliteration: auchmeros Short Definition: dark. Word Origin from<br> auchmos (<b>drought</b>) Definition dry, squalid NASB Word Usage dark (1). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/850b.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/8514.htm"><span class="l">8514. talubah -- <b>drought</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> 8513, 8514. talubah or talubah. 8515 . <b>drought</b>. Transliteration: talubah or<br> talubah Phonetic Spelling: (tal-oo-baw') Short Definition: <b>drought</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/8514.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6723.htm"><span class="l">6723. tsiyyah -- dryness, <b>drought</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> dryness, <b>drought</b>. Transliteration: tsiyyah Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-yaw') Short<br> Definition: dry. <b>...</b> barren, <b>drought</b>, dry land, place, solitary place, wilderness. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6723.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2721.htm"><span class="l">2721. choreb -- dryness, <b>drought</b>, heat</span></a><br><b>...</b> dryness, <b>drought</b>, heat. Transliteration: choreb Phonetic Spelling: (kho'-reb) Short<br> Definition: desolation. desolation, <b>drought</b>, dry, heat, utterly, waste <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2721.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2725.htm"><span class="l">2725. cherabon -- <b>drought</b></span></a><br><b>...</b> cherabon. 2726 . <b>drought</b>. Transliteration: cherabon Phonetic Spelling:<br> (khar-aw-bone') Short Definition: heat. <b>...</b> <b>drought</b>. From charab; parching heat -- <b>drought</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2725.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2721a.htm"><span class="l">2721a. choreb -- dryness, <b>drought</b>, heat</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2721, 2721a. choreb. 2721b . dryness, <b>drought</b>, heat. Transliteration: choreb<br> Short Definition: heat. Word Origin from chareb Definition <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2721a.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1226.htm"><span class="l">1226. batstsoreth -- a dearth</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1225, 1226. batstsoreth. 1227 . a dearth. Transliteration: batstsoreth Phonetic<br> Spelling: (bats-tso'-reth) Short Definition: <b>drought</b>. <b>...</b> dearth, <b>drought</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1226.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1224b.htm"><span class="l">1224b. batstsarah -- dearth, destitution</span></a><br><b>...</b> dearth, destitution. Transliteration: batstsarah Short Definition: <b>drought</b>. Word<br> Origin from batsar Definition dearth, destitution NASB Word Usage <b>drought</b> (1). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1224b.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6774.htm"><span class="l">6774. tsimmaon -- thirsty ground</span></a><br><b>...</b> <b>drought</b>, dry ground, thirsty land. From tsame'; a thirsty place, ie Desert -- <b>drought</b>,<br> dry ground, thirsty land. see HEBREW tsame'. 6773, 6774. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6774.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6710.htm"><span class="l">6710. tsachtsachah -- a scorched region</span></a><br><b>...</b> <b>drought</b>. From tsachach; a dry place, ie Desert -- <b>drought</b>. see HEBREW tsachach. <br> 6709, 6710. tsachtsachah. 6711 . Strong's Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6710.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6724.htm"><span class="l">6724. tsayon -- dryness, parched ground</span></a><br><b>...</b> 6723, 6724. tsayon. 6725 . dryness, parched ground. Transliteration: tsayon<br> Phonetic Spelling: (tsee-yone') Short Definition: <b>drought</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6724.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/newcomb/a_practical_directory_for_young_christian_females/letter_iii_true_religion_a.htm"><span class="l">Letter iii. True Religion a Work of Grace in the Heart; but it <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall<br> be green; and shall not be careful in the year of <b>drought</b>, neither shall <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../letter iii true religion a.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/triumphant_prayer.htm"><span class="l">Triumphant Prayer</span></a> <br><b>...</b> A terrible <b>drought</b> has fallen upon the land, and the prophet's picture of it is,<br> if one might say so, like some of Dante's in its realism, in its tenderness <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/triumphant prayer.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_f/a_prophets_strange_providers.htm"><span class="l">A Prophet's Strange Providers</span></a> <br><b>...</b> In any case, the absence of explanation of reasons for the <b>drought</b>, or of credentials<br> of Elijah, or of offers of mercy on condition of repentance, give a <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a prophets strange providers.htm</font><p><a href="/library/josephus/the_antiquities_of_the_jews/chapter_13_how_ahab_when.htm"><span class="l">How Ahab when He had Taken Jezebel to Wife Became More Wicked than <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> named cake; of which she had part for herself, and gave the rest to her son, and<br> to the prophet also; nor did any thing of this fall until the <b>drought</b> ceased. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 13 how ahab when.htm</font><p><a href="/library/white/the_story_of_prophets_and_kings/chapter_9_elijah_the_tishbite.htm"><span class="l">Elijah the Tishbite</span></a> <br><b>...</b> On his way to Samaria, Elijah had passed by ever-flowing streams, hills covered<br> with verdure, and stately forests that seemed beyond the reach of <b>drought</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 9 elijah the tishbite.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_a/smitten_in_vain.htm"><span class="l">Smitten in Vain</span></a> <br><b>...</b> To Amos, famine, <b>drought</b>, blasting, locusts, pestilence, and probably earthquake,<br> were five messengers of God, and Amos was taught by God. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/smitten in vain.htm</font><p><a href="/library/orr/how_to_live_a_holy_life/spiritual_dryness.htm"><span class="l">Spiritual Dryness.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> He says, "And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in <b>drought</b>,<br> and make fat thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/orr/how to live a holy life/spiritual dryness.htm</font><p><a href="/library/various/select_masterpieces_of_biblical_literature/rhapsody_2.htm"><span class="l">Rhapsody</span></a> <br><b>...</b> I. Rhapsody of the <b>Drought</b>./ This is a simple and clear example of rhapsodic<br> writing. It opens with scenic description of the <b>drought</b> <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/rhapsody 2.htm</font><p><a href="/library/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_h/the_heath_in_the_desert.htm"><span class="l">The Heath in the Desert and the Tree by the River</span></a> <br><b>...</b> out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall<br> be green; and shall not be careful in the year of <b>drought</b>, neither shall <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the heath in the desert.htm</font><p><a href="/library/origen/origens_commentary_on_the_gospel_of_john/1_and_the_word_was.htm"><span class="l">"And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. "</span></a> <br><b>...</b> which came to Isaiah, the son of Amos, concerning Judah and concerning Jerusalem,"<br> and "The Word which came to Jeremiah [4661] concerning the <b>drought</b>." We must <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of john/1 and the word was.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/d/drought.htm"><span class="l"><b>Drought</b> (20 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> It is then the "<b>drought</b> of summer" (Genesis 31:40; Psalm 32:4), and the land suffers<br> (Deuteronomy 28:23 Psalm 102:4), vegetation being preserved only by the <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/drought.htm - 13k</font><p><a href="/topical/e/elijah.htm"><span class="l">Elijah (104 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Eleiou, New Testament Eleias or Elias, the King James Version of New Testament Elias):<br> Contents I. THE WORKS OF ELIJAH 1. The Judgment of <b>Drought</b> 2. The Ordeal <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/e/elijah.htm - 71k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/droughts.htm"><span class="l">Droughts (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Droughts (3 Occurrences). Psalms 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon<br> me: My moisture was changed as with the <b>drought</b> of summer. Selah (See JPS YLT). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/droughts.htm - 7k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/frost.htm"><span class="l">Frost (9 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> in the temperature of the day and the night, especially on the inland plains, so<br> that literally, as Jacob said to Laban, "In the day the <b>drought</b> consumed me <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/frost.htm - 14k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/cherith.htm"><span class="l">Cherith (2 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> a gorge, a torrent-bed or winter-stream, a "brook," in whose banks the prophet Elijah<br> hid himself during the early part of the three years' <b>drought</b> (1 Kings 17 <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/cherith.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/b/botany.htm"><span class="l">Botany</span></a><br><b>...</b> Among these xerophile or <b>drought</b>-resisting plants, some of the most characteristic<br> features are a thick, leathery rind admitting of little transpiration, eg <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/b/botany.htm - 38k</font><p><a href="/topical/j/joel.htm"><span class="l">Joel (22 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> The land has suffered from a succession of disasters, the greatest that<br> could befall an agricultural country, <b>drought</b> and locusts. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/j/joel.htm - 49k</font><p><a href="/topical/s/snow.htm"><span class="l">Snow (25 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> summer. (3) The snow of the mountains is the source of the water of the<br> springs which last throughout the <b>drought</b> of summer. In <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/s/snow.htm - 21k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/dross.htm"><span class="l">Dross (7 Occurrences)</span></a><br><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/dross.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/a/ahab.htm"><span class="l">Ahab (85 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> advantage of any momentary weakness, the kingdom, during the reign of Ahab, was<br> compelled to undergo the blighting effects of misfortune, <b>drought</b> and famine. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/a/ahab.htm - 52k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Elijah-and-Elisha.html">What is the story of Elijah and Elisha? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/life-Elijah.html">Who was Elijah in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Ahab-and-Jezebel.html">What is the story of Ahab and Jezebel? | GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://clyx.com/term/drought.htm">Drought: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Drought (20 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/31-40.htm">Genesis 31:40</a></span><br />This was my situation: in the day the <span class="boldtext">drought</span> consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/8-15.htm">Deuteronomy 8:15</a></span><br />Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and <span class="boldtext">drought</span>, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;<br /><span class="source">(KJV DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-22.htm">Deuteronomy 28:22</a></span><br />Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with burning ague, and with <span class="boldtext">drought</span>, and with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. <br /><span class="source">(DBY JPS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/6-37.htm">Judges 6:37</a></span><br />lo, I am placing the fleece of wool in the threshing-floor: if dew is on the fleece alone, and on all the earth <span class="boldtext">drought</span> -- then I have known that Thou dost save Israel by my hand, as Thou hast spoken;'<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/6-39.htm">Judges 6:39</a></span><br />And Gideon saith unto God, 'Let not Thine anger burn against me, and I speak only this time; let me try, I pray Thee, only this time with the fleece -- let there be, I pray Thee, <span class="boldtext">drought</span> on the fleece alone, and on all the earth let there be dew.'<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/judges/6-40.htm">Judges 6:40</a></span><br />And God doth so on that night, and there is <span class="boldtext">drought</span> on the fleece alone, and on all the earth there hath been dew.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/12-15.htm">Job 12:15</a></span><br />Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/job/24-19.htm">Job 24:19</a></span><br /><span class="boldtext">Drought</span> and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/32-4.htm">Psalms 32:4</a></span><br />For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the <span class="boldtext">drought</span> of summer. Selah. <br /><span class="source">(KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/psalms/38-7.htm">Psalms 38:7</a></span><br />For my flanks have been full of <span class="boldtext">drought</span>, And soundness is not in my flesh.<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/isaiah/4-6.htm">Isaiah 4:6</a></span><br />And a covering may be, For a shadow by day from <span class="boldtext">drought</span>, And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, From inundation and from rain!<br /><span class="source">(YLT)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/2-6.htm">Jeremiah 2:6</a></span><br />Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of <span class="boldtext">drought</span> and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/14-1.htm">Jeremiah 14:1</a></span><br />The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the <span class="boldtext">drought</span>. <br /><span class="source">(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/17-8.htm">Jeremiah 17:8</a></span><br />For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of <span class="boldtext">drought</span>, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/48-18.htm">Jeremiah 48:18</a></span><br />Come down from thy glory and sit in the <span class="boldtext">drought</span>, O inhabitress, daughter of Dibon; the spoiler of Moab is come up against thee, thy strongholds hath he destroyed.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/50-38.htm">Jeremiah 50:38</a></span><br />A <span class="boldtext">drought</span> is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jeremiah/51-43.htm">Jeremiah 51:43</a></span><br />Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hosea/13-5.htm">Hosea 13:5</a></span><br />I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great <span class="boldtext">drought</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/zephaniah/2-13.htm">Zephaniah 2:13</a></span><br />And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, a place of <span class="boldtext">drought</span> like the wilderness.<br /><span class="source">(DBY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/haggai/1-11.htm">Haggai 1:11</a></span><br />I called for a <span class="boldtext">drought</span> on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."<br /><span class="source">(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/d/drought.htm">Drought</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/d/drought--figurative.htm">Drought: Figurative</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/d/drought--general_scriptures_concerning.htm">Drought: General Scriptures Concerning</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/d/drought--sent_by_god_as_a_judgment.htm">Drought: Sent by God As a Judgment</a></p><a name="rel" id="rel"></a><div class="vheading2">Related 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