I Thirst

And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore <i>isi> this <i>thati> thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

• Iron

Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all <i>thingsi>: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

• Self-delusion

And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, i shall have peace, though i walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall i die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

• Character

<i>Whichi> make oil within their walls, <i>andi> tread <i>theiri> winepresses, and suffer thirst. Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly <i>to themi>. They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. read more The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth <i>hisi> face. In the dark they dig through houses, <i>whichi> they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. For the morning <i>isi> to them even as the shadow of death: if <i>onei> know <i>them, they are ini> the terrors of the shadow of death. He <i>isi> swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. Drought and heat consume the snow waters: <i>so dothi> the grave <i>those whichi> have sinned. The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. He evil entreateth the barren <i>thati> beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no <i>mani> is sure of life. <i>Thoughi> it be given him <i>to bei> in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes <i>arei> upon their ways. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all <i>otheri>, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. And if <i>it bei> not <i>soi> now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? show less

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because <i>they havei> no knowledge: and their honourable men <i>arei> famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

<i>Wheni> the poor and needy seek water, and <i>there isi> none, <i>andi> their tongue faileth for thirst, i the LORD will hear them, <i>ii> the God of Israel will not forsake them.

Wherefore, when i came, <i>was therei> no man? when i called, <i>was therei> none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have i no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke i dry up the sea, i make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because <i>there isi> no water, and dieth for thirst.

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for i have loved strangers, and after them will i go.

Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from <i>thyi> glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, <i>andi> he shall destroy thy strong holds.

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, <i>andi> no man breaketh <i>iti> unto them.

Lest i strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that i will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

• Character

Blessed <i>arei> they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

• Water
• Wells

But whosoever drinketh of the water that i shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that i shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that i thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

And Jesus said unto them, i am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

In the last day, that great <i>dayi> of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, i thirst.