Psalms 147:8

World English Bible (2000)

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

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  • Job 5:10 : 10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
  • Job 26:8-9 : 8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them. 9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
  • Gen 9:14 : 14 It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
  • Ps 104:13-14 : 13 He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works. 14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:
  • Ps 135:1 : 1 Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
  • Amos 5:7-8 : 7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
  • Acts 14:17 : 17 Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
  • Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
  • 1 Kgs 18:44-45 : 44 It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, "Go up, tell Ahab, 'Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn't stop you.'" 45 It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
  • Job 36:27-33 : 27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, 28 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly. 29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion? 30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea. 31 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance. 32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark. 33 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning the storm that comes up.
  • Job 38:24-27 : 24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth? 25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm; 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man; 27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. 10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. 11 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. 12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. 13 The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing. For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.

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    12 The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

    13 He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

    14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

  • Job 5:10
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    10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

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    7 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

  • Job 38:26-28
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    26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

    27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

    28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

  • Ps 147:9
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    9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

  • Job 37:6
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    6 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

  • Job 36:27-29
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    27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

    28 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

    29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

  • Ps 148:8-10
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    8 Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

    9 mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

    10 wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

    3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

  • Ps 147:7
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    7 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,

  • Zech 10:1
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    1 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

  • Ps 65:9-10
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    9 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

    10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

  • Ps 72:6
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    6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

    16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Jer 14:22
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    22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

  • Isa 55:10
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    10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

  • Heb 6:7
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    7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

  • Job 37:11
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    11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

  • Amos 4:13
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    13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."

  • Ps 104:8
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    8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

  • Job 26:8-9
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    8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

    9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

  • Amos 9:6
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    6 It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

  • Ps 8:8
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    8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

  • Job 38:34
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    34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

  • Ps 104:10
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    10 He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

  • Ps 104:32
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    32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

  • Jer 10:13
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    13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Ps 146:6
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    6 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

  • Job 39:8
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    8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.

  • Isa 40:22
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    22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

  • Job 36:32
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    32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

  • Ps 65:12
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    12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

  • Ps 147:18
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    18 He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

  • Ps 68:9
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    9 You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

  • Isa 30:23
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    23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

  • Job 9:8
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    8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

  • Ps 8:1
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    1 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens!

  • Deut 11:15
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    15 I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.