Job 38:28
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28 “Has the rain a father,
or who has fathered the drops of dew?(A)
Jeremiah 14:22
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22 Can any idols of the nations bring rain,
or can the heavens give showers?
Is it not you, O Lord our God?
We set our hope on you,
for it is you who do all this.(A)
Psalm 147:8
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8 He covers the heavens with clouds,
prepares rain for the earth,
makes grass grow on the hills.(A)
Matthew 5:45
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45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.(A)
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Amos 4:7
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7 And I also withheld the rain from you
when there were still three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city
and send no rain on another city;
one field would be rained upon,
and the field on which it did not rain withered;
Joel 2:23
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23 O children of Zion, be glad,
and rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given the early rain[a] for your vindication;
he has poured down for you abundant rain,
the early and the later rain, as before.(A)
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- 2.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Hosea 14:5
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5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall strike root like the forests of Lebanon.[a](A)
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- 14.5 Cn: Heb like Lebanon
Jeremiah 10:13
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13 When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)
Jeremiah 5:24
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24 They do not say in their hearts,
“Let us fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain in its season,
the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
the weeks appointed for the harvest.”(A)
Proverbs 3:20
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20 by his knowledge the deeps broke open,
and the clouds drop down the dew.(A)
Psalm 65:9-10
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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.
Job 38:8
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8 “Or who shut in the sea with doors
when it burst out from the womb,(A)
Job 29:19
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19 my roots spread out to the waters,
with the dew all night on my branches;(A)
Job 5:9-10
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9 He does great things and unsearchable,
marvelous things without number.(A)
10 He gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;(B)
1 Kings 17:1
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Elijah Predicts a Drought
17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”(A)
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- 17.1 Gk: Heb of the settlers
2 Samuel 1:21
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21 You mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you
nor bounteous fields![a]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.(A)
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- 1.21 Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Samuel 12:17-18
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17 Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain, and you shall know and see that the wickedness that you have done in the sight of the Lord is great in demanding a king for yourselves.”(A) 18 So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.(B)
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Deuteronomy 33:28
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28 So Israel lives in safety,
untroubled is Jacob’s abode[a]
in a land of grain and wine,
where the heavens drop down dew.(A)
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- 33.28 Or fountain
Deuteronomy 33:13
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13 And of Joseph he said,
“Blessed by the Lord be his land,
with the choice gifts of heaven above
and of the deep that lies beneath,(A)
Genesis 27:39
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39 Then his father Isaac answered him:
“See, away from the fatness of the earth shall your home be
and away from the dew of heaven on high.(A)
Genesis 27:28
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28 May God give you of the dew of heaven
and of the fatness of the earth
and plenty of grain and wine.(A)
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