KJV:
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
NASB:
"Drought and heat consume the snow waters, So does Sheol those who have sinned.
KJV:
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
NASB:
"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
KJV:
{A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
NASB:
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
KJV:
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
NASB:
Yet they still continued to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
KJV:
He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
NASB:
He opened the rock and water flowed out; It ran in the dry places like a river.
KJV:
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
NASB:
He changes a wilderness into a pool of water And a dry land into springs of water;
KJV:
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
NASB:
The wilderness and the desert will be glad, And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom; Like the crocus
KJV:
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
NASB:
"I will open rivers on the bare heights And springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water And the dry land fountains of water.
KJV:
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
NASB:
For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
KJV:
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
NASB:
"They did not say, 'Where is the LORD Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no man dwelt?'