<p class="poetry">Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and its shoots the Euphrates River.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He opened up a rock and water flowed out;p> <p class="poetry">a river ran through dry regions.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The land of buzzing wings is as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the one beyond the rivers of Cush,p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Who is this that rises like the Nile,p> <p class="poetry">like its streams<n id="1" /> turbulent at flood stage?p>

<p class="bodytext">The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings<n id="1" /> I saw at the Kebar River.

<p class="poetry">From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who pray to me<n id="2" /> will bring me tribute.p>

That day the <sc>Lordsc> made a covenant<n id="1" /> with Abram: &#8220;To your descendants I give<n id="2" /> this land, from the river of Egypt<n id="3" /> to the great river, the Euphrates River &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> a river flows<n id="2" /> from Eden<n id="3" /> top> <p class="bodytext">water the orchard, and from there it divides<n id="4" /> into four headstreams.<n id="5" />

The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through<n id="1" /> the entire land of Cush.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">They are like<n id="1" /> valleys<n id="2" /> stretched forth,p> <p class="poetry">like gardens by the river&#8217;s side,p> <p class="poetry">like aloes<n id="3" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> has planted,p> <p class="poetry">and like cedar trees beside the waters.p>

<p class="bodytext">David defeated King Hadadezer of Zobah as far as Hamath, when he went to extend his authority<n id="1" /> to the Euphrates River.<n id="2" />

He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River<n id="1" /> to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt.

<p class="poetry">If the river rages,<n id="1" /> it is not disturbed,p> <p class="poetry">it is secure,<n id="2" /> though the Jordanp> <p class="poetry">should surge up to its mouth.p>

<p class="poetry">The river&#8217;s channels bring joy to the city of God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the special, holy dwelling place of<n id="2" /> the sovereign One.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He turned the sea into dry land;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they passed through the river on foot.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Let us rejoice in him there!<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">By the rivers of Babylonp> <p class="poetry">we sit down and weep<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">when we remember Zion.p>

<p class="poetry">The canals<n id="1" /> will stink;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;p> <p class="poetry">the bulrushes and reeds will decay,p>

<p class="poetry">I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will dry up all their vegetation.p> <p class="poetry">I will turn streams into islands,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and dry up pools of water.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Pick up millstones and grind flour!p> <p class="poetry">Remove your veil,p> <p class="poetry">strip off your skirt,p> <p class="poetry">expose your legs,p> <p class="poetry">cross the streams!p>

<p class="poetry">If only you had obeyed my<n id="1" /> commandments,p> <p class="poetry">prosperity would have flowed to you like a river,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.<n id="3" />p>