River

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Figurative

Of salvation

• Psalm 36:8 They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
• Psalm 46:4 There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
• Isaiah 32:2 Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
• Ezekiel 47:1–12 Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. Next he brought me out through the north gat…
• Revelation 22:1–2 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And th…

Of grief

• Psalm 119:136 My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
• Lamentations 3:48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.