He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.
Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.
And a shade in the daytime from the heat, and a safe cover from storm and from rain.
For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.
And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.
So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;
They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.
For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.
By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
Then he said to the people, When you see a cloud coming up in the west, straight away you say, There will be rain; and so it is.
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.
And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.
In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.
A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.
As clouds and wind without rain, so is one who takes credit for an offering he has not given.
As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.
Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.
Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
He gave them ice for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.
The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,
You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.
And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.
Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.
And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.
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