Isaiah 55:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

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  • Isa 30:23 : 23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
  • Hos 10:12 : 12 Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.
  • 2 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 Just as it is written,“He has scattered widely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.” 10 Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow. 11 You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,
  • Isa 61:11 : 11 For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the Sovereign LORD will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.
  • Ezek 34:26 : 26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.
  • Rev 11:6 : 6 These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.
  • Deut 32:2 : 2 My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way. 10 You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow. 11 You crown the year with your good blessings, and you leave abundance in your wake. 12 The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy. 13 The meadows are clothed with sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout joyfully, yes, they sing.
  • Ps 72:6-7 : 6 He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth. 7 During his days the godly will flourish; peace will prevail as long as the moon remains in the sky.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.
  • 1 Sam 23:4 : 4 So David asked the LORD once again. But again the LORD replied,“Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

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  • Isa 55:11-12
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    11In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.”

    12Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.

  • Job 5:10
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    10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • Isa 55:8-9
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    8“Indeed, my plans are not like your plans, and my deeds are not like your deeds,” says the LORD,

    9“for just as the sky is higher than the earth, so my deeds are superior to your deeds and my plans superior to your plans.

  • Job 37:6
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    6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • Job 38:26-28
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    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

    27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

  • Ps 65:9-10
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    9You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way.

    10You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

  • Ps 72:6
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    6He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

  • Zech 10:1
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    1The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

  • Deut 32:2
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    2My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

  • Isa 30:23
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    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

  • Job 36:27-28
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    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

    28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

  • Hag 1:10
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    10This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

  • Ps 104:13-14
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    13He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

    14He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

  • Isa 61:11
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    11For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the Sovereign LORD will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

  • 2 Cor 9:10
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    10Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

  • Deut 11:14
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    14then he promises,“I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

  • Ps 147:8
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    8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

  • Amos 4:7
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    7“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

  • Jer 10:13
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    13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Eccl 11:3-4
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    3If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.

    4He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.

  • Jer 5:24
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    24They do not say to themselves,“Let us revere the LORD our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

  • Deut 11:10-11
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    10For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.

    11Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

  • Zech 8:12
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    12‘for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit, and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.

  • Isa 45:8
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    8O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it.

  • Hos 6:3
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    3So let us search for him! Let us seek to know the LORD! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”

  • Ps 147:18
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    18He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.

  • Ps 148:8
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    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • Ezek 34:26
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    26I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.

  • Lev 26:4
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    4I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

  • Job 37:11
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    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

  • Ps 135:7
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    7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • Isa 44:3
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    3For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children.

  • Job 14:9
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    9at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Job 29:23
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    23They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.

  • Gen 8:22
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    22“While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

  • 2 Kgs 3:17
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    17for this is what the LORD has said,‘You will not feel any wind or see any rain, but this valley will be full of water and you and your cattle and animals will drink.’