²⁵ “Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain
    and a way for the thunderbolt,^(A)
26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
    on the desert, which is empty of human life,^(B)
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
    and to make the ground put forth grass?^(C)

²⁸ “Has the rain a father,
    or who has fathered the drops of dew?^(D)

⁹ You visit the earth and water it;
    you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
    you provide the people with grain,
    for so you have prepared it.^(A)
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
    and blessing its growth.
¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
¹² The pastures of the wilderness overflow;
    the hills gird themselves with joy;^(B)
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks;
    the valleys deck themselves with grain;
    they shout and sing together for joy.^(C)

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