Job 28:26

It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

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

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunder storm,

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s 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.’

“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”

Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.” ’ ”

Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.

They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,

Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.

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

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

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

He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.

I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

For 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.”

Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

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.”

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.

But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

On the third day, when it was morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will come up no more.

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles.

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.

lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

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.

Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

“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.

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

The angel answered me, “These are the four winds of the sky, which go out from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

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.

For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.