13 (A)He causes it to come,
Whether for [a]correction,
Or (B)for His land,
Or (C)for mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:13 Lit. a rod

45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

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26 To cause it to rain on a land where there is no one,
A wilderness in which there is no man;
27 (A)To satisfy the desolate waste,
And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?

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18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and (A)all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

19 And all the people said to Samuel, (B)“Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves.”

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31 For (A)by these He judges the peoples;
He (B)gives food in abundance.

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So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and (A)all the people sat in the open square of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of heavy rain.

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:23 Or teacher of righteousness

37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom?
Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
38 When the dust hardens in clumps,
And the clods cling together?

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For (A)He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’;
Likewise to the [a]gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:6 Lit. shower of rain

14 They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in (A)Zelah, in the tomb of Kish his father. So they performed all that the king commanded. And after that (B)God heeded the prayer for the land.

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10 Now (A)Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, (B)from the beginning of harvest until the late rains poured on them from heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

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18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause very heavy hail to rain down, such as has not been in Egypt since its founding until now. 19 Therefore send now and gather your livestock and all that you have in the field, for the hail shall come down on every man and every animal which is found in the field and is not brought home; and they shall die.” ’ ”

20 He who (A)feared the word of the Lord among the (B)servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his livestock flee to the houses. 21 But he who did not regard the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.

22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be (C)hail in all the land of Egypt—on man, on beast, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.” 23 And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven; and (D)the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire darted to the ground. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so very heavy that there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the (E)hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt, all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail struck every herb of the field and broke every tree of the field.

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