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
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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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 5:7
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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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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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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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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 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)
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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23 The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.(A)
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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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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)
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 2:23-24
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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)
24 The threshing floors shall be full of grain;
the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.
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- 2.23 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Hosea 10:12
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12 Sow for yourselves righteousness;
reap steadfast love;
break up your fallow ground,
for it is time to seek the Lord,
that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.(A)
Ezekiel 36:37
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37 Thus says the Lord God: I will also let the house of Israel ask me to do this for them: to multiply their people like sheep.
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Jeremiah 51:16
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16 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 lightnings for the rain,
and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.(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)
Proverbs 16:15
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15 In the light of a king’s face there is life,
and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.(A)
Psalm 104:13
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13 From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.(A)
Psalm 72:6
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6 May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,
like showers that water the earth.(A)
Psalm 65:9
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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)
Job 37:1-6
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37 “At this also my heart trembles
and leaps out of its place.
2 Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.(A)
3 Under the whole heaven he lets it loose,
and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
4 After it his voice roars;
he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings[a] when his voice is heard.(B)
5 God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.(C)
6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’;
and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,(D)
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- 37.4 Heb them
Job 36:27-31
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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)
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- 36.27 Cn: Heb they distill
Job 29:23
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23 They waited for me as for the rain;
they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
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