then (A)I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Read full chapter

12 (A)For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, (B)and the heavens shall give their dew. (C)And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

Read full chapter

The earth has (A)yielded its increase;
    God, our God, shall bless us.

Read full chapter

23 (A)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
    and (B)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given (C)the early rain for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    (D)the early and (E)the latter rain, as before.

24 “The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
    the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Read full chapter

30 (A)I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, (B)that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

Read full chapter

26 And I will make them and the places all around my hill (A)a blessing, and (B)I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be (C)showers of blessing. 27 (D)And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, (E)and they shall be secure in their land. And (F)they shall know that I am the Lord, when (G)I break the bars of their yoke, and (H)deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Read full chapter

23 (A)And he will give (B)rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. (C)In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,

Read full chapter

10 he gives (A)rain on the earth
    and sends waters on the fields;

Read full chapter

12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, (A)to give the rain to your land in its season and (B)to bless all the work of your hands. And (C)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Read full chapter

14 (A)he[a] will give the rain for your land in its season, (B)the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:14 Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15

21 I will (A)command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

Read full chapter

17 Yet (A)he did not leave himself without witness, for he (B)did good by (C)giving you rains from heaven and (D)fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with (E)food and (F)gladness.”

Read full chapter

45 (A)so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and (B)sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Read full chapter

18 (A)Consider from this day onward, (B)from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since (C)the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, (D)consider: 19 (E)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on (F)I will bless you.”

Read full chapter

12 Yes, (A)the Lord will give what is good,
    and our land (B)will yield its increase.

Read full chapter

(A)Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;
    you restored your inheritance as it languished;

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 65:9 Or and make it overflow

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?

Read full chapter

They have the power (A)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and (B)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

Read full chapter

17 Elijah was a man (A)with a nature like ours, and (B)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for (C)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 (D)Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

Read full chapter

Patience in Suffering

Be patient, therefore, brothers,[a] until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives (A)the early and the late rains.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. James 5:7 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 9, 10, 12, 19

“I also (A)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
(B)I would send rain on one city,
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
    and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
so two or three cities (C)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
(D)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

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.

Read full chapter

13 (A)From your lofty abode you (B)water the mountains;
    the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends

ESV Student Study Bible, Trutone, Green with Mosaic Cross Design
ESV Student Study Bible, Trutone, Green with Mosaic Cross Design
Retail: $44.99
Our Price: $20.99
Save: $24.00 (53%)
4.5 of 5.0 stars
ESV Student Study Bible (TruTone, Gray), Leather, imitation, Grey
ESV Student Study Bible (TruTone, Gray), Leather, imitation, Grey
Retail: $44.99
Our Price: $28.99
Save: $16.00 (36%)
4.5 of 5.0 stars
ESV Study Bible, Black Genuine  Leather with Thumb Index
ESV Study Bible, Black Genuine Leather with Thumb Index
Retail: $124.99
Our Price: $69.99
Save: $55.00 (44%)
4.5 of 5.0 stars
ESV Church Bible (Value Pew Bible) Case of 24
ESV Church Bible (Value Pew Bible) Case of 24
Retail: $311.76
Our Price: $155.76
Save: $156.00 (50%)
ESV Value Compact Bible, TruTone Imitation Leather, Brown
ESV Value Compact Bible, TruTone Imitation Leather, Brown
Retail: $14.99
Our Price: $10.99
Save: $4.00 (27%)
3.5 of 5.0 stars