For to the snow he says, ‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains, ‘Pour down.’

When he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.

Ask the Lord for rain in the season of the late spring rains – the Lord who causes thunderstorms – and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

then he promises, “I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.

So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.

When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again: both he and his servants hardened their hearts.

Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

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.