Isaiah 30:23

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

and the ground will produce crops in abundance. ¹ 

At that time ²  your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

28:23 The ³  sky ⁴  above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 28:24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Amos 4:7

4:7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. ⁵ 

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

One field ⁶  would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

Zechariah 14:16-17

14:16 Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. ⁷  14:17 But if any of the nations anywhere on earth refuse to go up to Jerusalem ⁸  to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, they will get no rain.

Hebrews 6:6-8

6:6 and then have committed apostasy, ⁹  to renew them again to repentance, since ¹⁰  they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again ¹¹  and holding him up to contempt. 6:7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on ¹²  it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God. 6:8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; ¹³  its fate is to be burned.

Revelation 11:6

11:6 These two have the power ¹⁴  to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time ¹⁵  they are prophesying. They ¹⁶  have power ¹⁷  to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.

[30:23]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[28:23]  ³ tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”

[28:23]  ⁴ tn Or “heavens” (also in the following verse). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[4:7]  ⁵ sn Rain…three months before the harvest refers to the rains of late March-early April.

[4:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “portion”; KJV, ASV “piece”; NASB “part.” The same word occurs a second time later in this verse.

[14:16]  ⁷ sn Having imposed his sovereignty over the earth following the Battle of Armageddon, the Lord will receive homage and tribute from all who survive from all the nations. The Feast of Tabernacles was especially associated with covenant institution and renewal so it will be appropriate for all people to acknowledge that they are vassals to the Lord at that time (cf. Deut 31:9-13; Neh 8:12-18; 9:1-38).

[14:17]  ⁸ sn The reference to any…who refuse to go up to Jerusalem makes clear the fact that the nations are by no means “converted” to the Lord but are under his compulsory domination.

[6:6]  ⁹ tn Or “have fallen away.”

[6:6]  ¹⁰ tn Or “while”; Grk “crucifying…and holding.” The Greek participles here (“crucifying…and holding”) can be understood as either causal (“since”) or temporal (“while”).

[6:6]  ¹¹ tn Grk “recrucifying the son of God for themselves.”

[6:7]  ¹² tn Grk “comes upon.”

[6:8]  ¹³ tn Grk “near to a curse.”

[11:6]  ¹⁴ tn Or “authority.”

[11:6]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “the days.”

[11:6]  ¹⁶ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[11:6]  ¹⁷ tn Or “authority.”