Jeremiah 5:24

5:24 They do not say to themselves, ¹ 

“Let us revere the Lord our God.

It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time.

It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.” ² 

Jeremiah 10:13

10:13 When his voice thunders, ³  the heavenly ocean roars.

He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. ⁴ 

He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.

He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it. ⁵ 

Jeremiah 51:16

51:16 When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar.

He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons.

He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.

He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

Deuteronomy 28:12

28:12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; ⁶  you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

Deuteronomy 28:1

The Covenant Blessings

28:1 “If you indeed ⁷  obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving ⁸  you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ⁹  I am giving ¹⁰  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹¹  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 17:14

Provision for Kingship

17:14 When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, “I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”

Deuteronomy 18:1

Provision for Priests and Levites

18:1 The Levitical priests ¹³  – indeed, the entire tribe of Levi – will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the Lord and of his inheritance. ¹⁴ 

Job 5:10

5:10 he gives ¹⁵  rain on the earth, ¹⁶ 

and sends ¹⁷  water on the fields; ¹⁸ 

Job 38:26-28

38:26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, ¹⁹ 

a desert where there are no human beings, ²⁰ 

38:27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,

and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? ²¹ 

38:28 Does the rain have a father,

or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

Psalms 147:8

147:8 He covers ²²  the sky with clouds,

provides the earth with rain,

and causes grass to grow on the hillsides. ²³ 

Isaiah 30:23

30:23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground,

and the ground will produce crops in abundance. ²⁴ 

At that time ²⁵  your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

Joel 2:23

2:23 Citizens of Zion, ²⁶  rejoice!

Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! ²⁷ 

For he has given to you the early rains ²⁸  as vindication.

He has sent ²⁹  to you the rains –

both the early and the late rains ³⁰  as formerly.

Amos 4:7

4:7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. ³¹ 

I gave rain to one city, but not to another.

One field ³²  would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

Matthew 5:45

5:45 so that you may be like ³³  your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

[5:24]  ¹ tn Heb “say in their hearts.”

[5:24]  ² tn Heb “who keeps for us the weeks appointed for harvest.”

[10:13]  ³ tn Heb “At the voice of his giving.” The idiom “to give the voice” is often used for thunder (cf. BDB 679 s.v. נָתַן Qal.1.x).

[10:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the ends of the earth.”

[10:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “he brings out the winds from his storehouses.”

[28:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

[28:1]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”

[28:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).

[8:1]  ⁹ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ¹² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[18:1]  ¹³ tn The MT places the terms “priests” and “Levites” in apposition, thus creating an epexegetical construction in which the second term qualifies the first, i.e., “Levitical priests.” This is a way of asserting their legitimacy as true priests. The Syriac renders “to the priest and to the Levite,” making a distinction between the two, but one that is out of place here.

[18:1]  ¹⁴ sn Of his inheritance. This is a figurative way of speaking of the produce of the land the Lord will give to his people. It is the Lord’s inheritance, but the Levites are allowed to eat it since they themselves have no inheritance among the other tribes of Israel.

[5:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “who gives.” The participle continues the doxology here. But the article is necessary because of the distance between this verse and the reference to God.

[5:10]  ¹⁶ tn In both halves of the verse the literal rendering would be “upon the face of the earth” and “upon the face of the fields.”

[5:10]  ¹⁷ tn The second participle is simply coordinated to the first and therefore does not need the definite article repeated (see GKC 404 §126.b).

[5:10]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew term חוּצוֹת (khutsot) basically means “outside,” or what is outside. It could refer to streets if what is meant is outside the house; but it refers to fields here (parallel to the more general word) because it is outside the village. See Ps 144:13 for the use of the expression for “countryside.” The LXX gives a much wider interpretation: “what is under heaven.”

[38:26]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “on a land, no man.”

[38:26]  ²⁰ tn Heb “a desert, no man in it.”

[38:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “to cause to sprout a source of vegetation.” The word מֹצָא (motsa’) is rendered “mine” in Job 28:1. The suggestion with the least changes is Wright’s: צָמֵא (tsame’, “thirsty”). But others choose מִצִּיָּה (mitsiyyah, “from the steppe”).

[147:8]  ²² tn Heb “the one who covers.”

[147:8]  ²³ tn Heb “hills.”

[30:23]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and he will give rain for your seed which you plant in the ground, and food [will be] the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and abundant.”

[30:23]  ²⁵ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[2:23]  ²⁶ tn Heb “sons of Zion.”

[2:23]  ²⁷ tn Heb “be glad in the Lord your God.”

[2:23]  ²⁸ tn Normally the Hebrew word הַמּוֹרֶה (hammoreh) means “the teacher,” but here and in Ps 84:7 it refers to “early rains.” Elsewhere the word for “early rains” is יוֹרֶה (yoreh). The phrase here הַמּוֹרֶה לִצְדָקָה (hammoreh litsdaqah) is similar to the expression “teacher of righteousness” (Heb., מוֹרֶה הַצֶּדֶק , moreh hatsedeq) found in the Dead Sea Scrolls referring to a particular charismatic leader, although the Qumran community seems not to have invoked this text in support of that notion.

[2:23]  ²⁹ tn Heb “caused to come down.”

[2:23]  ³⁰ sn For half the year Palestine is generally dry. The rainy season begins with the early rains usually in late October to early December, followed by the latter rains in March and April. Without these rains productive farming would not be possible, as Joel’s original readers knew only too well.

[4:7]  ³¹ sn Rain…three months before the harvest refers to the rains of late March-early April.

[4:7]  ³² tn Heb “portion”; KJV, ASV “piece”; NASB “part.” The same word occurs a second time later in this verse.

[5:45]  ³³ tn Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.