"I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit." -- Leviticus 26:4

"...then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil." -- Deuteronomy 11:14

" ... Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and he will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you." -- Deuteronomy 11:17

"The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none." -- Deuteronomy 28:12 ... "The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish." -- Deuteronomy 28:22 ... "The LORD will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed." -- Deuteronomy 28:24

"...Is it not wheat harvest now? I will call upon the LORD to send thunder and rain. And you will realize what an evil thing you did in the eyes of the LORD when you asked for a king. Then Samuel called upon the LORD, and that same day the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the LORD and of Samuel." -- I Samuel 12:17, 18

""When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance." -- I Kings 8:35, 36

"Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word." -- I Kings 17:1 ... "Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land." -- I Kings 17:7 ... "For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: `The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.'" -- I Kings 17:14 ... "After a long time, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: 'Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.' " -- I Kings 18:1 ... "And Elijah said to Ahab, 'Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.'" -- I Kings 18:41 ... "The seventh time the servant reported, 'A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea.' So Elijah said, 'Go and tell Ahab, "Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you." ' Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain came on and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. " -- I Kings 18:44, 45

"For this is what the LORD says: You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with water, and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink." -- II Kings 3:17

"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance." -- II Chronicles 6:26, 27

"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people ... " -- II Chronicles 7:13

"He bestows rain on the earth; he sends water upon the countryside." -- Job 5:10 ... "If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land." -- Job 12:15 ... "when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm ... " -- Job 28:26 ... "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams ... " -- Job 36:27 ... "He says to the snow, `Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, `Be a mighty downpour.'" -- Job 37:6 ... "Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm ... " -- Job 38:25 ... "Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?" -- Job 38:28

" ... the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel." -- Psalms 68:8 ... "He will be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth." -- Psalms 72:6 ... "He turned their rain into hail, with lightning throughout their land ... " -- Psalms 105:32 ... "He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses." -- Psalms 135:7 ... "He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills." -- Psalms 147:8

"If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie." -- Ecclesiastes 11:3

"I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it." -- Isaiah 5:6

"He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows." -- Isaiah 30:23

"You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it; I, the LORD, have created it." -- Isaiah 45:8

"As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater..." -- Isaiah 55:10

"When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses. " -- Jeremiah 10:13

"This is the word of the LORD to Jeremiah concerning the drought:" -- Jeremiah 14:1 ... "The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads." -- Jeremiah 14:4 ... "Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this." -- Jeremiah 14:22

"When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses." -- Jeremiah 51:16

"`Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my wrath I will unleash a violent wind, and in my anger hailstones and torrents of rain will fall with destructive fury.'"-- Ezekiel 13:13

" 'I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town, but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.'" -- Amos 4:7

"I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands." -- Haggai 1:11

"Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone." -- Zechariah 10:1

"If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles." -- Zechariah 14:17, 18

" ... that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." -- Matthew 5:45

"He said to the crowd: 'When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, `It's going to rain,' and it does. ... ' " -- Luke 12:54

"Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy." -- Acts 14:17

"Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God." -- Hebrews 6:7

"Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops." -- James 5:17

"These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want." -- Revelation 11:6

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