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

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

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

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?

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

They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter.

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?