He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, the LORD our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
"Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
Now therefore pray for us, because you are a godly woman, and then the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns and we will faint no more."
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
In the light of the king's face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
The north wind brings forth rain: so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land.
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai-- at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.
He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
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