River

How Nave’s arranged it

• FIGURATIVE
• Of salvationPsalms 36:8Psalms 46:4Isaiah 32:2Ezekiel 47:1–12Revelation 22:1Revelation 22:2
• Of griefPsalms 119:136Lamentations 3:48

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Psalms 36:8

   They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 36:82 voices

   “They will be intoxicated with the abundance of your house, and you will give them to drink from the torrent of your pleasure. They are not placed in pastures, but in banquets: for some are in the place of pastures, others in the privilege of sacraments.

   “They shall be abundantly sallied with the fatness of thy house,....

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2. Psalms 46:4

   There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 46:41 voice

   “Some give the definition that a city is an established community, administered according to law. And the definition that has been handed down of the city is in harmony with the celestial city, Jerusalem above. For there it is a community of the first-born who have been enrolled in heaven, and this is established because of the unchanging manner of life of the saints, and it is administered according to the heavenly law. Therefore, it is not the privilege of human nature to learn the arrangement of that city and all its adornment.

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3. Psalms 119:136

   My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 119:1362 voices

   “. Ver. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law. He wept in sympathy with God to see the holy law despised and broken. He wept in pity for men who were thus drawing down upon themselves the fiery wrath of God. His grief was such that he could scarcely give it vent; his tears were not mere drops of sorrow, but torrents of woe.

   “Rivers of waters run down mine eyes,.... That is, "out of" them; as the Syriac version: or, "mine eyes let down rivers of waters" (t); see Lam 3:48; that is, an abundance of tears, which flowed like a river; an hyperbolical expression, setting forth the excessiveness of grief.

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4. 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.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 32:22 voices

   “As to consolation in tribulation: and a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, above: there shall be a tabernacle for a shade in the daytime from the heat (Isa 4:6).

   “(Chapter 32, Verses 1 onwards) Behold, the king shall reign with justice, and princes shall rule with judgment. And a man shall be like one who hides from the wind, and conceals himself from the storm: like streams of water in a dry place, and the shadow of a towering rock in a barren land. The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen carefully. And the heart of fools shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers shall speak quickly and clearly.

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5. Lamentations 3:48

   Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

   ›Commentary on Lamentations 3:481 voice

   “Differently to be admonished are those who deplore sins of deed, and those who deplore sins of thought. For those who deplore sins of deed are to be admonished that perfected lamentations should wash out consummated evils, lest they be bound by a greater debt of perpetrated deed than they pay in tears of satisfaction for it.

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6. 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.

   ›Commentary on Ezekiel 47:1–121 voice

   “(Chapter 47, verse 1) And he brought me back to the door of the house, and behold, water was coming out from under the threshold of the house eastward. For the face of the house was toward the east, and the water was flowing down from the right side of the temple, south of the altar.

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7. Revelation 22:1

   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

   ›Commentary on Revelation 22:11 voice

   “'And whose leaves never fade.' [Psalm 1:3] The leaves of this tree are by no means useless. Even if one understands Holy Writ only as history, he has something useful for his soul.

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8. Revelation 22:2

   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 the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

   ›Commentary on Revelation 22:22 voices

   “This river waters the saints who are planted alongside it. They are here figuratively called the "tree of life" by virtue of their participation and imitation of him who is the Tree of Life. Moreover, they give forth "twelve fruits," that is, they unceasingly yield …

   “'And whose leaves never fade.' [Psalm 1:3] The leaves of this tree are by no means useless. Even if one understands Holy Writ only as history, he has something useful for his soul.

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