Behold I am making a new thing, I will give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the lonely place, to give drink to My people, My chosen Isa. xliii 19, 20.

I will pour out waters upon the thirsty one, and rivers upon the dry ground; I will pour out My spirit upon thy seed, and [My] blessing upon thine offspring Isa. xliv 3.

Then shall the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break forth, and rivers in the plain of the wilderness Isa. xxxv 6.

I will open rivers upon the hillsides, and put fountains in the midst of the valleys, [making] the wilderness into a pool of waters, and the dry land into springs of water Isa. xli 18.

Jehovah has founded the world (orbis) upon the seas, He has made it firm upon the rivers Ps. xxiv 2.

I will set His hand in the sea, and His right hand in the rivers Ps. lxxxix 25 [H.B. 26].

Was Jehovah displeased with the rivers? was Thine anger against the rivers, was Thy wrath against the sea, because Thou didst ride upon thy horses? Hab. iii 8.

A river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God Ps. xlvi 3-5.

He showed me a pure river of water of life, going forth out of the throne of God and the Lamb Rev. xxii 1.

He gave the rocks in the wilderness, and caused the great deeps to drink, He smote the rock and the rivers gushed out Ps. lxxviii 15, 16, 20; cv 41.

Then shall the waters fail in the sea, and the river shall be dried up Isa. xix 5-7; xlii 15; l 2; Nab. i 4; Ps. cvii 33; Job xiv 10, 11.

Jesus said, If anyone comes to Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow streams of living water John vii 37, 38.

Besides elsewhere, as Isa. xxxiii 21; Jer. xvii 7, 8; Ezek. xxxi 3, 4; xlvii 1-12; Joel iii 18 [H.B. iv 18]; Zech. ix 10; Ps. lxxx 11 [H.B. 12]; xciii 2-4; xcviii 7, 8; cx 7; Num. xxiv 6, 7; Deut viii 7. [3] But that 'rivers' in the opposite sense signify untruths in abundance can be established from these:-

He shall send by sea ambassadors to a nation trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled Isa. xviii 2.

Except Jehovah were for us, the waters would have submerged us, and the river would have gone over our soul Ps. cxxiv 2, 4, 5.

When thou passest through the waters, I [will be] with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not submerge thee Isa. xliii 2.

The cords of death have encompassed me, and the floods of belial have made me afraid Ps. xviii 5.

The dragon cast forth out of its mouth water as a river after the woman, that he might cause her to be swallowed up by the flood Rev. xii 15.

Behold, Jehovah brings upon you the waters of a river powerful and many, and it shall overflow and go over, and shall reach even unto the neck Isa. viii 7, 8.

The floods came, and beat upon that house, and yet it fell not, for it had been founded upon rock Matt. vii 25, 27, Luke vi 48, 49.

Here, indeed, 'floods' [stand] for untruths in abundance, because by 'rock' is signified the Lord as to Divine Truth. By 'floods' are also signified temptations, because temptations are inundations of untruths.