<p class="poetry">For to the snow he says, &#8216;Fall<n id="1" /> to earth,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and to the torrential rains,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Pour down.&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">When he imposed a limit<n id="1" /> for the rain,p> <p class="poetry">and a path for the thunderstorm,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They waited for me as people wait<n id="1" /> for the rain,p> <p class="poetry">and they opened their mouths<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">as for<n id="3" /> the spring rains.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Ask the <sc>Lordsc> for rain in the season of the late spring rains<n id="1" /> &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc> who causes thunderstorms &#8211; and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

<p class="poetry">He draws up drops of water;p> <p class="poetry">they distill<n id="1" /> the rain into its mist,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does the rain have a father,p> <p class="poetry">or who has fathered the drops of the dew?p>

<p class="poetry">He<n id="1" /> will descend like rain on the mown grass,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like showers that drench<n id="3" /> the earth.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">A poor person<n id="1" /> who oppresses the weakp> <p class="poetry">is like<n id="2" /> a driving rain without food.<n id="3" />p>

then he promises,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will send rain for your land<n id="2" /> in its season, the autumn and the spring rains,<n id="3" /> so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

<p class="poetry">My teaching will drop like the rain,p> <p class="poetry">my sayings will drip like the dew,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as rain drops upon the grass,p> <p class="poetry">and showers upon new growth.p>

<p class="poetry">is like the light of morning when the sun comes up,p> <p class="poetry">a morning in which there are no clouds.p> <p class="poetry">He is like the brightness after rainp> <p class="poetry">that produces grass from the earth.p>

<p class="poetry">he gives<n id="1" /> rain on the earth,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and sends<n id="3" /> water on the fields;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">makes lightning bolts accompany the rain,p> <p class="poetry">and brings the wind out of his storehouses.p>

<p class="poetry">He covers<n id="1" /> the sky with clouds,p> <p class="poetry">provides the earth with rain,p> <p class="poetry">and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,p> <p class="poetry">so honor<n id="1" /> is not fitting for a fool.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat,p> <p class="poetry">as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So Moses left Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the <sc>Lordsc>, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain stopped pouring on the earth.

When Pharaoh saw<n id="1" /> that the rain and hail and thunder ceased, he sinned again:<n id="2" /> both he and his servants hardened<n id="3" /> their hearts.

Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy<n id="1" /> is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc> will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.p>