Psalms 74:17

that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

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

For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”

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.

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

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.’

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be listed among the nations.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

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.

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

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.

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.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

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

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so that there will not be day and night in their time;

Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.

To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided. His brother’s name was Joktan.

So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.

For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,”

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.

I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

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.

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

The heavens are Yahweh’s heavens, but he has given the earth to the children of men.

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!

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.”

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

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.

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.

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.

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

“You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

“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.

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.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

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.”

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

They went up over the width of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God and devoured them.

These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.