Jeremiah 5:24
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24 They do not say from the heart,
‘Let us live in awe of the Lord our God,
for he gives us rain each spring and fall,
assuring us of a harvest when the time is right.’
Psalm 147:8
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8 He covers the heavens with clouds,
provides rain for the earth,
and makes the grass grow in mountain pastures.
Genesis 8:22
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22 As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”
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Acts 14:17
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17 but he never left them without evidence of himself and his goodness. For instance, he sends you rain and good crops and gives you food and joyful hearts.”
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Matthew 5:45
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45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike.
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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.
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain?
Does it fall from the sky by itself?
No, you are the one, O Lord our God!
Only you can do such things.
So we will wait for you to help us.
Job 5:10
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10 He gives rain for the earth
and water for the fields.
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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James 5:17-18
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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! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.
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James 5:7
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Patience and Endurance
7 Dear brothers and sisters,[a] be patient as you wait for the Lord’s return. Consider the farmers who patiently wait for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They eagerly look for the valuable harvest to ripen.
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Zechariah 10:1
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The Lord Will Restore His People
10 Ask the Lord for rain in the spring,
for he makes the storm clouds.
And he will send showers of rain
so every field becomes a lush pasture.
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.
Hosea 6:1
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A Call to Repentance
6 “Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces;
now he will heal us.
He has injured us;
now he will bandage our wounds.
Jeremiah 50:5
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5 They will ask the way to Jerusalem[a]
and will start back home again.
They will bind themselves to the Lord
with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.
Jeremiah 5:22
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22 Have you no respect for me?
Why don’t you tremble in my presence?
I, the Lord, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline
as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross.
The waves may toss and roar,
but they can never pass the boundaries I set.
Isaiah 64:7
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7 Yet no one calls on your name
or pleads with you for mercy.
Therefore, you have turned away from us
and turned us over[a] to our sins.
Footnotes
- 64:7 As in Greek, Syriac, and Aramaic versions; Hebrew reads melted us.
Job 38:37
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37 Who is wise enough to count all the clouds?
Who can tilt the water jars of heaven
Job 36:27-28
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27 He draws up the water vapor
and then distills it into rain.
28 The rain pours down from the clouds,
and everyone benefits.
1 Kings 17:1
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Elijah Fed by Ravens
17 Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, “As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives—the God I serve—there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”
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Deuteronomy 28:12
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12 The Lord will send rain at the proper time from his rich treasury in the heavens and will bless all the work you do. You will lend to many nations, but you will never need to borrow from them.
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Deuteronomy 11:13-14
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13 “If you carefully obey the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the Lord your God and serve him with all your heart and soul, 14 then he will send the rains in their proper seasons—the early and late rains—so you can bring in your harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil.
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Hosea 3:5
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5 But afterward the people will return and devote themselves to the Lord their God and to David’s descendant, their king.[a] In the last days, they will tremble in awe of the Lord and of his goodness.
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- 3:5 Hebrew to David their king.
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