Psalms 147:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Job 5:10 : 10 he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;
  • Job 26:8-9 : 8 He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them. 9 He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.
  • Gen 9:14 : 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,
  • Ps 104:13-14 : 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,
  • Ps 135:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD! Offer praise, you servants of the LORD,
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the LORD your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains– both the early and the late rains as formerly.
  • Amos 5:7-8 : 7 The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground. 8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name!
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”
  • Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.
  • 1 Kgs 18:44-45 : 44 The seventh time the servant said,“Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah then said,“Go and tell Ahab,‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’” 45 Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward Jezreel.
  • Job 36:27-33 : 27 He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist, 28 which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly. 29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? 30 See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea. 31 It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance. 32 With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target. 33 His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.
  • Job 38:24-27 : 24 In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth? 25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder, 26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings, 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
  • 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.

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    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

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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.

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  • Isa 55:10
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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.

  • 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.

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

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    8as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them.

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    9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

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    6He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name.

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    8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.

  • Job 38:34
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    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • Ps 104:10
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    10He turns springs into streams; they flow between the mountains.

  • Ps 104:32
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    32He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

  • 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.

  • Ps 146:6
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    6the one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who remains forever faithful,

  • Job 39:8
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    8It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

  • Isa 40:22
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    22He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.

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    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • Ps 65:12
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    12The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.

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

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    9O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them,

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    8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

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  • Deut 11:15
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    15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”