Verse 28

Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait upon You, for You have made all these things.
  • Ps 147:8 : 8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
  • Prov 3:20 : 20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
  • Jer 5:24 : 24 Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
  • Jer 10:13 : 13 When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning with rain, and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
  • Hos 14:5 : 5 I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and strike his roots as Lebanon.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad then, children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the former rain in due measure, and he will cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain in the first month.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece where it did not rain withered.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:
  • Gen 27:39 : 39 And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
  • Deut 33:13 : 13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that crouches beneath,
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be on a land of grain and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. 18 So Samuel called to the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
  • 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is disdainfully cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word.
  • Job 5:9-9 : 9 Who does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number: 10 Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields:
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My root spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.
  • Job 38:8 : 8 Or who closed up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water; You prepare them grain, for so You have provided for it. 10 You water its ridges abundantly; You settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers; You bless its growth.