Zechariah 10:1
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The Restoration for Judah and Israel
10 Ask rain (A)from the Lord
in the season of (B)the spring rain,
from the Lord (C)who makes the storm clouds,
and (D)he will give them showers of rain,
to everyone the vegetation in the field.
James 5:16-18
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16 Therefore, (A)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, (B)that you may be healed. (C)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.[a] 17 Elijah was a man (D)with a nature like ours, and (E)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for (F)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. 18 (G)Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
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- James 5:16 Or The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power
Matthew 7:7-8
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Ask, and It Will Be Given
7 (A)“Ask, (B)and it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
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Isaiah 44:3
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3 (A)For I will pour water on the thirsty land,
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring,
and my blessing on your descendants.
James 5:7
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Patience in Suffering
7 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.
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Isaiah 30:23
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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,
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Psalm 65:9
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9 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.
Footnotes
- Psalm 65:9 Or and make it overflow
Deuteronomy 28:23
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23 And (A)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
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John 16:23
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23 (A)In that day you will (B)ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, (C)whatever you ask of the Father in my name, (D)he will give it to you.
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Micah 5:7
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A Remnant Shall Be Delivered
7 Then (A)the remnant of Jacob shall be
in the midst of many peoples
like dew from the Lord,
like showers on the grass,
which delay not for a man
nor wait for the children of man.
Amos 4:7
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7 “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;
Hosea 10:12
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12 (A)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
reap steadfast love;
(B)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come and (C)rain righteousness upon you.
Ezekiel 36:37
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37 “Thus says the Lord God: This also (A)I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: (B)to increase their people like (C)a flock.
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Ezekiel 34:26
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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.
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Jeremiah 14:22
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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.
Isaiah 5:6
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6 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.
Proverbs 16:15
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15 (A)In the light of a king's face there is life,
and his (B)favor is like (C)the clouds that bring the spring rain.
Psalm 104:13
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13 (A)From your lofty abode you (B)water the mountains;
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.
Job 37:1-6
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Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
37 “At this also my heart trembles
and leaps out of its place.
2 Keep listening to the thunder of his voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go,
and his (A)lightning to the (B)corners of the earth.
4 After it (C)his voice roars;
(D)he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings[a] when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does (E)great things that we cannot (F)comprehend.
6 For to (G)the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’
likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
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- Job 37:4 Hebrew them
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 lightning for the rain,
and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
1 Kings 17:1
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Elijah Predicts a Drought
17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of (A)Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
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- 1 Kings 17:1 Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers
Deuteronomy 11:13-14
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13 “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, (A)to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 (B)he[a] will give the rain for your land in its season, (C)the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.
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- Deuteronomy 11:14 Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15
1 Corinthians 3:6
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6 (A)I planted, (B)Apollos watered, (C)but God gave the growth.
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Joel 2:23-24
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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.
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