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)
Job 5:10
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10 He gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;(A)
Psalm 104:13-14
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13 From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.(A)
14 You cause the grass to grow for the cattle
and plants for people to cultivate,
to bring forth food from the earth(B)
Job 26:8-9
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8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not torn open by them.(A)
9 He covers the face of the full moon
and spreads over it his cloud.(B)
Genesis 9:14
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14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
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James 5:17-18
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17 Elijah was a human like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.(A) 18 Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded its harvest.(B)
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Acts 14:17
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17 yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good, giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.”(A)
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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 5:7-8
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7 Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood
and bring righteousness to the ground!
8 The one who made the Pleiades and Orion
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the water of the sea
and pours it out on the surface of the earth,
the Lord is his name,(A)
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
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)
Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will make it a wasteland;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.(A)
Psalm 135:1
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Psalm 135
Praise for God’s Goodness and Might
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise the name of the Lord;
give praise, O servants of the Lord,
Psalm 65:9-13
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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.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow;
the hills gird themselves with joy;(B)
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks;
the valleys deck themselves with grain;
they shout and sing together for joy.(C)
Job 38:24-27
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24 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed
or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?(A)
25 “Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain
and a way for the thunderbolt,(B)
26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives,
on the desert, which is empty of human life,(C)
27 to satisfy the waste and desolate land,
and to make the ground put forth grass?(D)
Job 36:27-33
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27 For he draws up the drops of water;
he distills[a] his mist in rain,(A)
28 which the skies pour down
and drop upon mortals abundantly.
29 Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of his pavilion?(B)
30 See, he scatters his lightning around him
and covers the roots of the sea.
31 For by these he governs peoples;
he gives food in abundance.(C)
32 He covers his hands with the lightning
and commands it to strike the mark.(D)
33 Its crashing[b] tells about him;
he is jealous[c] with anger against iniquity.(E)
1 Kings 18:44-45
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44 At the seventh time he said, “Look, a little cloud no bigger than a person’s hand is rising out of the sea.” Then he said, “Go say to Ahab, ‘Harness your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’ ” 45 In a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind; there was a heavy rain. Ahab rode off and went to Jezreel.
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