<p class="poetry">before the sun and the light<n id="1" /> of the moon and the stars grow dark,p> <p class="poetry">and the clouds disappear<n id="2" /> after the rain;p>

<p class="poetry">like heat<n id="1" /> in a dry land,p> <p class="poetry">you humble the boasting foreigners.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so he causes the song of tyrants to cease.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I remove the guilt of your rebellious deeds as if they were a cloud,p> <p class="poetry">the guilt of your sins as if they were a cloud.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Come back to me, for I protect<n id="2" /> you.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, when you departed<n id="1" /> from Seir,p> <p class="poetry">when you marched from Edom&#8217;s plains,p> <p class="poetry">the earth shook, the heavens poured down,p> <p class="poetry">the clouds poured down rain.<n id="2" />p>

Meanwhile the sky was covered with dark clouds, the wind blew, and there was a heavy rainstorm. Ahab rode toward<n id="1" /> Jezreel.

<p class="poetry">If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.p>

<p class="poetry">I will make it a wasteland;p> <p class="poetry">no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and thorns and briers will grow there.p> <p class="poetry">I will order the cloudsp> <p class="poetry">not to drop any rain on it.p>

<p class="poetry">For this is what the <sc>Lordsc> has told me:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will wait<n id="1" /> and watch from my place,p> <p class="poetry">like scorching heat produced by the sunlight,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like a cloud of mist<n id="3" /> in the heat<n id="4" /> of harvest.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about Egypt:p> <p class="poetry">Look, the <sc>Lordsc> rides on a swift-moving cloudp> <p class="poetry">and approaches Egypt.p> <p class="poetry">The idols of Egypt tremble before him;p> <p class="poetry">the Egyptians lose their courage.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">At the sound of the approaching horsemen and archersp> <p class="poetry">the people of every town will flee.p> <p class="poetry">Some of them will hide in the thickets.p> <p class="poetry">Others will climb up among the rocks.p> <p class="poetry">All the cities will be deserted.p> <p class="poetry">No one will remain in them.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come<n id="1" /> to you in a dense cloud,<n id="2" /> so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you.&#8221;<n id="3" /> And Moses told the words of the people to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

The seventh time the servant<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man&#8217;s hand, is rising up from the sea.&#8221; Elijah<n id="2" /> then said, &#8220;Go and tell Ahab, &#8216;Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won&#8217;t overtake you.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />