Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
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Referenced Verses
- Zech 10:1 : 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 72:6 : 6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
- Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth."
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21 "Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.
22 After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.
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24 I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.
- Job 32:15-162 verses73%
15 "They are amazed. They answer no more. They don't have a word to say.
16 Shall I wait, because they don't speak, Because they stand still, and answer no more?
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14 As through a wide breach they come, In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
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13 They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.
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131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for your commandments.
- Deut 32:1-22 verses71%
1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak; Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall condense as the dew, As the small rain on the tender grass, As the showers on the herb.
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24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
- Job 36:27-282 verses70%
27 For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,
28 Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.
- Jer 17:15-162 verses70%
15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
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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;
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21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"
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24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
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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.
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11 "Behold, I waited for your words, And I listened for your reasoning, While you searched out what to say.
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3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
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5 I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
6 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.
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8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
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10 They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
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14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
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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.
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2 For they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
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10 Therefore their people return to them, And they drink up waters of abundance.
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17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst; I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
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27 These all wait for you, That you may give them their food in due season.
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1 > I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
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4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.
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41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.
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23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;
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3 The eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.
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16 For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
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7 "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.
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31 They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
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23 Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven.
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19 The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
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49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
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13 But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.
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6 They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
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4 For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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23 Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
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7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
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27 To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?
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26 I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.