20 By His knowledge the depths were (A)broken up,
And clouds drop down the dew.

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20 by his knowledge the watery depths were divided,
    and the clouds let drop the dew.

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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on (A)that day all (B)the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the (C)windows of heaven were opened.

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11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,(A) on the seventeenth day of the second month(B)—on that day all the springs of the great deep(C) burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens(D) were opened.

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You [a]visit the earth and (A)water it,
You greatly enrich it;
(B)The river of God is full of water;
You provide their grain,
For so You have prepared it.
10 You water its ridges abundantly,
You settle its furrows;
You make it soft with showers,
You bless its growth.

11 You crown the year with Your goodness,
And Your paths drip with abundance.
12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness,
And the little hills rejoice on every side.

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  1. Psalm 65:9 give attention to

You care for the land and water it;(A)
    you enrich it abundantly.(B)
The streams of God are filled with water
    to provide the people with grain,(C)
    for so you have ordained it.[a]
10 You drench its furrows and level its ridges;
    you soften it with showers(D) and bless its crops.
11 You crown the year with your bounty,(E)
    and your carts overflow with abundance.(F)
12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow;(G)
    the hills are clothed with gladness.(H)

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  1. Psalm 65:9 Or for that is how you prepare the land

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?
28 (B)Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

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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)
28 Does the rain have a father?(D)
    Who fathers the drops of dew?

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“Or(A) who shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth and issued from the womb;
When I made the clouds its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling band;
10 When (B)I fixed My limit for it,
And set bars and doors;
11 When I said,
‘This far you may come, but no farther,
And here your proud waves (C)must stop!’

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“Who shut up the sea behind doors(A)
    when it burst forth from the womb,(B)
when I made the clouds its garment
    and wrapped it in thick darkness,(C)
10 when I fixed limits for it(D)
    and set its doors and bars in place,(E)
11 when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther;(F)
    here is where your proud waves halt’?(G)

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27 For He (A)draws up drops of water,
Which distill as rain from the mist,
28 (B)Which the clouds drop down
And pour abundantly on man.

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27 “He draws up the drops of water,(A)
    which distill as rain to the streams[a];(B)
28 the clouds pour down their moisture
    and abundant showers(C) fall on mankind.(D)

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  1. Job 36:27 Or distill from the mist as rain

28 Therefore may (A)God give you
Of (B)the dew of heaven,
Of (C)the fatness of the earth,
And (D)plenty of grain and wine.

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Then God said, (A)“Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and (B)let the dry land appear”; and it was so.

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And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place,(A) and let dry ground(B) appear.” And it was so.(C)

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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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  1. Joel 2:23 Or teacher of righteousness

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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22 (A)Are there any among (B)the idols of the nations that can cause (C)rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
(D)Are You not He, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait for You,
Since You have made all these.

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22 Do any of the worthless idols(A) of the nations bring rain?(B)
    Do the skies themselves send down showers?
No, it is you, Lord our God.
    Therefore our hope is in you,
    for you are the one who does all this.(C)

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[a]They went up over the mountains;
They went down into the valleys,
To the place which You founded for them.
You have (A)set a boundary that they may not pass over,
(B)That they may not return to cover the earth.

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  1. Psalm 104:8 Or The mountains rose up; The valleys sank down

they flowed over the mountains,
    they went down into the valleys,
    to the place you assigned(A) for them.
You set a boundary(B) they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.

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28 Then (A)Israel shall dwell in safety,
(B)The fountain of Jacob (C)alone,
In a land of grain and new wine;
His (D)heavens shall also drop dew.

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28 So Israel will live in safety;(A)
    Jacob will dwell[a] secure
in a land of grain and new wine,
    where the heavens drop dew.(B)

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  1. Deuteronomy 33:28 Septuagint; Hebrew Jacob’s spring is

37 Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, (A)“Indeed I have made him your master, and all his brethren I have given to him as servants; with (B)grain and wine I have [a]sustained him. What shall I do now for you, my son?”

38 And Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me—me also, O my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice (C)and wept.

39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him:

“Behold, (D)your dwelling shall be of the [b]fatness of the earth,
And of the dew of heaven from above.

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  2. Genesis 27:39 fertility

37 Isaac answered Esau, “I have made him lord over you and have made all his relatives his servants, and I have sustained him with grain and new wine.(A) So what can I possibly do for you, my son?”

38 Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.(B)

39 His father Isaac answered him,(C)

“Your dwelling will be
    away from the earth’s richness,
    away from the dew(D) of heaven above.(E)

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