Job 38:26
to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,
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- Ps 107:35 : 35 As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.
- Ps 147:8-9 : 8 He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides. 9 He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.
- Isa 35:1-2 : 1 The Land and Its People Are Transformed Let the wilderness and desert be happy; let the arid rift valley rejoice and bloom like a lily! 2 Let it richly bloom; let it rejoice and shout with delight! It is given the grandeur of Lebanon, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the grandeur of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
- Job 36:27 : 27 He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,
- Ps 104:10-14 : 10 He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains. 11 They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 The birds of the sky live beside them; they chirp among the bushes. 13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow. 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
- Isa 43:19-20 : 19 “Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the wilderness and paths in the wastelands. 20 The wild animals honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the wilderness and streams in the wastelands, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,
- Jer 14:22 : 22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
- Heb 6:7-8 : 7 For 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. 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
- Isa 41:18-19 : 18 I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs. 19 I will make cedars, acacias, myrtles, and olive trees grow in the wilderness; I will make evergreens, firs, and cypresses grow together in the arid rift valley.
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- Job 38:27-282 verses87%
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?
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24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?
25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,
- Job 36:27-293 verses78%
27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,
28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.
29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
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6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’
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10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;
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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.
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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.
- Job 37:11-122 verses74%
11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.
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22Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
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26when he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
- Job 38:34-352 verses73%
34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?
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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.
- Ps 107:33-353 verses73%
33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,
34and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.
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10The 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
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32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.
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18I will make streams flow down the slopes and produce springs in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the wilderness into a pool of water and the arid land into springs.
- Gen 2:5-62 verses72%
5Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
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8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
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8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.
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4They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.
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4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.
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37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
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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.’
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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.
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4He shouts a battle cry against the sea and makes it dry up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon withers.
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3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.
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6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.
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6to whom I appointed the arid rift valley for its home, the salt wastes as its dwelling place?
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2Why does no one challenge me when I come? Why does no one respond when I call? Is my hand too weak to deliver you? Do I lack the power to rescue you? Look, with a mere shout I can dry up the sea; I can turn streams into a desert, so the fish rot away and die from lack of water.
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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.
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11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.
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21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.
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10You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.
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8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
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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.
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15I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up; I will dry up all their vegetation. I will turn streams into islands, and dry up pools of water.
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10This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.