What does the Bible say about lack of rain?

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• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

• Deuteronomy 11:17

  and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

• Amos 4:7

  "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.

• Zechariah 14:17

  It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, on them there will be no rain.

• James 5:17-18

  [17] Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. [18] He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

• Jeremiah 14:1-6

  [1] The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. [2] Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. [3] Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. [4] Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. [5] Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. [6] The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

• Leviticus 26:19

  I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

• Jeremiah 3:3

  Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

• Haggai 1:10-11

  [10] Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. [11] I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of the hands."

• Haggai 1:11

  I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of the hands."

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