13 He brings the clouds to punish people,(A)
    or to water his earth and show his love.(B)

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45 Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain(A) started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.(B)

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26 to water(A) a land where no one lives,
    an uninhabited desert,(B)
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
    and make it sprout with grass?(C)

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18 Then Samuel called on the Lord,(A) and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe(B) of the Lord and of Samuel.

19 The people all said to Samuel, “Pray(C) to the Lord your God for your servants so that we will not die,(D) for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king.”

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31 This is the way he governs[a] the nations(A)
    and provides food(B) in abundance.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 36:31 Or nourishes

37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
    Who can tip over the water jars(A) of the heavens(B)
38 when the dust becomes hard(C)
    and the clods of earth stick together?(D)

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He says to the snow,(A) ‘Fall on the earth,’
    and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’(B)

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Within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin(A) had gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion and because of the rain.

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14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela(A) in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that,(B) God answered prayer(C) in behalf of the land.(D)

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10 Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.(A)

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18 Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm(A) that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.(B) 19 Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.’”

20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared(C) the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. 21 But those who ignored(D) the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.

22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.” 23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder(E) and hail,(F) and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt; 24 hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.(G) 25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.(H)

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23 Be glad, people of Zion,
    rejoice(A) in the Lord your God,
for he has given you the autumn rains
    because he is faithful.(B)
He sends you abundant showers,(C)
    both autumn(D) and spring rains,(E) as before.

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