Job 29:23
They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.
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Referenced Verses
- Zech 10:1 : 1 Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.
- Ps 72:6 : 6 May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.
- Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
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21 Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.
22 After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;
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24 I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.
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15 Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.
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14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
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13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
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- Deut 32:1-22 verses71%
1 Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:
2 My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
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24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
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21 Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.
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24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
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22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
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11 I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say,
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3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.
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5 I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word.
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8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.
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10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
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14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.
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23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
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2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.
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10 For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.
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17 The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.
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3 And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.
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23 And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;
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19 The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:
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49 My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
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23 Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.
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27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
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26 And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.