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Zechariah 10:1
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Zechariah 10:1
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Restoration of Judah and Israel
10 Ask rain from the Lord
in the season of the spring rain,
from the Lord who makes the storm clouds,
who gives showers of rain to you,[a]
the vegetation in the field to everyone.(A)
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- 10.1 Heb them
Zechariah 10:1
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Zechariah 10:1
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The Lord Will Care for Judah
Isaiah 44:3
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Isaiah 44:3
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3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my spirit upon your descendants
and my blessing on your offspring.(A)
James 5:16-18
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James 5:16-18
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16 Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.(A) 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.(B) 18 Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth yielded its harvest.(C)
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James 5:16-18
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James 5:16-18
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16 Therefore confess your sins(A) to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.(B) The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.(C)
17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are.(D) He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.(E) 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.(F)
James 5:7
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James 5:7
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Patience in Suffering
7 Be patient, therefore, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.(A)
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James 5:7
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James 5:7
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Patience in Suffering
7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming.(A) See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting(B) for the autumn and spring rains.(C)
Matthew 7:7-8
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Matthew 7:7-8
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Ask, Search, Knock
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.(A) 8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.(B)
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Matthew 7:7-8
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Matthew 7:7-8
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Ask, Seek, Knock(A)
7 “Ask and it will be given to you;(B) seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds;(C) and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Ezekiel 34:26
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Ezekiel 34:26
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26 I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.(A)
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Ezekiel 34:26
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Ezekiel 34:26
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26 I will make them and the places surrounding my hill a blessing.[a](A) I will send down showers in season;(B) there will be showers of blessing.(C)
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 34:26 Or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be named in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or I will cause them and the places surrounding my hill to be seen as blessed
Jeremiah 14:22
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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)
Jeremiah 14:22
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Jeremiah 14:22
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Jeremiah 10:13
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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 10:13
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Jeremiah 10:13
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Isaiah 30:23
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Isaiah 30:23
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23 He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures,(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:23
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Deuteronomy 28:23
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23 The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:23
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Deuteronomy 28:23
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23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.(A)
John 16:23
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John 16:23
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23 On that day you will ask nothing of me.[a] Very truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.[b]
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John 16:23
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John 16:23
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23 In that day(A) you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.(B)
Micah 5:7
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Micah 5:7
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The Future Role of the Remnant
7 Then the remnant of Jacob,
surrounded by many peoples,
shall be like dew from the Lord,
like showers on the grass,
which do not depend upon people
or wait for any mortal.(A)
Micah 5:7
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Micah 5:7
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Amos 4:7
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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;
Amos 4:7
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Amos 4:7
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