Amos 4:7
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7 “I also (A)withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
(B)I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
Jeremiah 3:3
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3 (A)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have (B)the forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
Exodus 9:26
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26 (A)Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
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Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and (A)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(B)I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
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13 (A)When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14 if my people who are called by my name (B)humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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James 5:17
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17 Elijah was a man (A)with a nature like ours, and (B)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for (C)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
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Exodus 10:23
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23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but (A)all the people of Israel had light where they lived.
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Exodus 9:4
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4 (A)But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die.”’”
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Revelation 11:6
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6 They have the power (A)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and (B)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.
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John 4:35
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35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that (A)the fields are white for harvest.
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Zechariah 14:17
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17 And if (A)any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship (B)the King, the Lord of hosts, (C)there will be no rain on them.
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Haggai 1:10-11
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10 Therefore (A)the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And (B)I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on (C)the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and (D)on all their labors.”
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Joel 1:10-18
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10 The fields are destroyed,
(A)the ground mourns,
because (B)the grain is destroyed,
(C)the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 (D)Be ashamed,[a] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(E)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
(F)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (G)gladness dries up
from the children of man.
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13 (H)Put on sackcloth and lament, (I)O priests;
(J)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (K)pass the night in sackcloth,
(L)O ministers of my God!
(M)Because grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
14 (N)Consecrate a fast;
(O)call a solemn assembly.
Gather (P)the elders
and (Q)all the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
15 Alas for the day!
(R)For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty[b] it comes.
16 Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
(S)joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
17 (T)The seed shrivels under the clods;[c]
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because (U)the grain has dried up.
18 How (V)the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.[d]
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 Are there any among (A)the false gods of the nations (B)that can bring rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
We set our hope on you,
(C)for you do all these things.
Jeremiah 14:4
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4 Because of the ground that is dismayed,
since there is (A)no rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
Jeremiah 5:24-25
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24 They do not say in their hearts,
‘Let us fear the Lord our God,
(A)who gives the rain in its season,
the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
(B)the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
25 (C)Your iniquities have turned these away,
and your sins have kept good from you.
1 Kings 8:35-36
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35 (A)“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, 36 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when (B)you teach them (C)the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
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Judges 6:37-40
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37 behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.” 38 And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water. 39 Then Gideon said to God, (A)“Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.” 40 And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
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Deuteronomy 28:23-24
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23 And (A)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
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17 then (A)the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he (B)will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and (C)you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
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Leviticus 26:27-28
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27 “But (A)if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you (B)in fury, and I myself will discipline you (C)sevenfold for your sins.
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Leviticus 26:23-24
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23 “And (A)if by this discipline you are not turned to me (B)but walk contrary to me, 24 (C)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
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Leviticus 26:18-21
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18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again (A)sevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break (B)the pride of your power, and I (C)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And (D)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (E)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
21 (F)“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
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Exodus 8:22
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22 But on that day (A)I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, (B)that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.[a]
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- Exodus 8:22 Or that I the Lord am in the land
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