צִיָּה

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.

The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

…your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.

The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.