Job 38:27

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

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  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
  • 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.

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  • Job 38:24-26
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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,

    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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,

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 35As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

  • Gen 2:5-6
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    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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • 7The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.

  • Job 8:11-12
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    11Can the papyrus plant grow tall where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish without water?

    12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

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

  • 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.

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

  • 11The LORD will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.

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

  • 33He turned streams into a desert, springs of water into arid land,

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • 1The Land and Its People Are Transformed Let the wilderness and desert be happy; let the arid rift valley rejoice and bloom like a lily!

  • 34The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

  • 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.

  • 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.’

  • 38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

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

  • 13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • 11The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

  • 10Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

  • 25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?