27 For he draws up the drops of water;
    they distill his (A)mist in (B)rain,

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He covers the heavens with clouds;
    he prepares (A)rain for the earth;
    he makes (B)grass grow on the hills.

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25 “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain
    and (A)a way for the thunderbolt,
26 to bring rain on (B)a land where no man is,
    on (C)the desert in which there is no man,
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
    and to make the ground sprout with (D)grass?

28 “Has (E)the rain a father,
    or who has begotten the drops of dew?

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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.

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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.

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(A)fire and hail, (B)snow and mist,
    (C)stormy wind (D)fulfilling his word!

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You visit the earth and (A)water it;[a]
    you greatly enrich it;
(B)the river of God is full of water;
    (C)you provide their grain,
    for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with (D)showers,
    and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks (E)overflow with abundance.
12 (F)The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
    the hills (G)gird themselves with joy,
13 (H)the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
    the valleys deck themselves with grain,
    they (I)shout and sing together for joy.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 65:9 Or and make it overflow

34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
    that (A)a flood of waters may cover you?

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33 Its crashing declares his presence;[a]
    the cattle also declare that he rises.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 36:33 Hebrew declares concerning him

who (A)does great things and (B)unsearchable,
    (C)marvelous things without number:

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When no (A)bush of the field[a] was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man (B)to work the ground, and a mist[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:5 Or open country
  2. Genesis 2:5 Or earth; also verse 6
  3. Genesis 2:6 Or spring

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