However, you must not eat its blood; you must pour it out on the ground like water.

When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!”

He looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.

The water has been pure to this very day, just as Elisha prophesied.

I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate!”

he consulted with his advisers and military officers about stopping up the springs outside the city, and they supported him.

and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.

You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst.

he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, Lord, by the powerful breath from your nose.

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

For the music director; according to the tune of “Lilies;” by David. Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck.