Amos 4:7
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7 “I kept the rain from falling
when your crops needed it the most.
I sent rain on one town
but withheld it from another.
Rain fell on one field,
while another field withered away.
Jeremiah 3:3
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3 That’s why even the spring rains have failed.
For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.
Exodus 9:26
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26 The only place without hail was the region of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived.
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Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will make it a wild place
where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,
a place overgrown with briers and thorns.
I will command the clouds
to drop no rain on it.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
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13 At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. 14 Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
James 5:17
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17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!
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Joel 2:23
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23 Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem!
Rejoice in the Lord your God!
For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness.
Once more the autumn rains will come,
as well as the rains of spring.
Exodus 10:23
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23 During all that time the people could not see each other, and no one moved. But there was light as usual where the people of Israel lived.
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Exodus 9:4
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4 But the Lord will again make a distinction between the livestock of the Israelites and that of the Egyptians. Not a single one of Israel’s animals will die!
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Revelation 11:6
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6 They have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
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John 4:35
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35 You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe[a] for harvest.
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- 4:35 Greek white.
Zechariah 14:17
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17 Any nation in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will have no rain.
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Haggai 1:10-11
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10 It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops. 11 I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”
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