Amos 4:7
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7 “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
Jeremiah 3:3
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3 Therefore the (A)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a (B)harlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.
Exodus 9:26
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26 (A)Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.
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Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will lay it (A)waste;
It shall not be pruned or [a]dug,
But there shall come up briers and (B)thorns.
I will also command the clouds
That they rain no rain on it.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:6 hoed
James 5:17
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17 Elijah was a man (A)with a nature like ours, and (B)he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
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Joel 2:23
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23 Be glad then, you children of Zion,
And (A)rejoice in the Lord your God;
For He has given you the [a]former rain faithfully,
And He (B)will cause the rain to come down for you—
The former rain,
And the latter rain in the first month.
Footnotes
- Joel 2:23 Or teacher of righteousness
Exodus 10:23
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23 They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. (A)But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
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Exodus 9:4
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4 And (A)the Lord will make a difference between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt. So nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.” ’ ”
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Revelation 11:6
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6 These (A)have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
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John 4:35
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35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes (A)the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, (B)for they are already white for harvest!
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Zechariah 14:17
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17 (A)And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
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Haggai 1:10-11
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10 Therefore (A)the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 For I (B)called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on (C)all the labor of your hands.”
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Joel 1:10-18
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10 The field is wasted,
(A)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
(B)The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.
11 (C)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 (D)The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely (E)joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Mourning for the Land
13 (F)Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
14 (G)Consecrate a fast,
Call (H)a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And (I)all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord.
15 (J)Alas for the day!
For (K)the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
16 Is not the food (L)cut off before our eyes,
(M)Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
18 How (N)the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep [a]suffer punishment.
Footnotes
- Joel 1:18 LXX, Vg. are made desolate
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 (A)Are there any among (B)the idols of the nations that can cause (C)rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
(D)Are You not He, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait for You,
Since You have made all these.
Jeremiah 14:4
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4 Because the ground is parched,
For there was (A)no rain in the land,
The plowmen were ashamed;
They covered their heads.
Jeremiah 5:24-25
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24 They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear the Lord our God,
(A)Who gives rain, both the (B)former and the latter, in its season.
(C)He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”
25 (D)Your iniquities have turned these things away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14
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13 (A)When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14 if My people who are (B)called by My name will (C)humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, (D)then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
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1 Kings 8:35-36
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35 (A)“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, 36 then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, that You may (B)teach them (C)the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on 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 (A)look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, 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 the next morning and squeezed the fleece together, he wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water. 39 Then Gideon said to God, (B)“Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more: Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on all the ground let there be dew.” 40 And God did so that night. It was dry on the fleece only, but there was dew on all the ground.
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Deuteronomy 28:23-24
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23 And (A)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
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17 lest (A)the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He (B)shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and (C)you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
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Leviticus 26:27-28
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27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:23-24
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23 ‘And if (A)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
24 (B)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:18-21
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18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you (A)seven times more for your sins.
19 I will (B)break the pride of your power;
I (C)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 And your (D)strength shall be spent in vain;
for your (E)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
Exodus 8:22
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22 And in that day (A)I will set apart the land of (B)Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there, in order that you may (C)know that I am the Lord in the midst of the (D)land.
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