Job 37:12

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s 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.”

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

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

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

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;

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.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

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.

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.”

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.

He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

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.

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.

Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

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.

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.

“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

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.

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

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

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

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

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

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

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.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

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

to him who by understanding made the heavens; for his loving kindness endures forever:

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

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

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.”

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

God 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.

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

The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

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.’

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

The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

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

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

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

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.

As for their appearance, the four of them had one likeness, like a wheel within a wheel.

How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is from generation to generation.

“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.

“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.

But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” His servant was healed in that hour.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.