What does the Bible say about rain?
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The Bible teaches that rain is a gracious gift of God, displaying his sovereign care for creation, sustaining life, and calling people to thankful faith and obedience. God promised Israel seasonal rain as a covenant blessing in Leviticus 26:4, while Jeremiah 5:24 warns against forgetting the Lord who appoints the rains. Zechariah 10:1 urges God’s people to ask the Lord for rain, recognizing that he alone governs the heavens. Through rain, God gives fruitful seasons and bears witness to his goodness even among the nations, as Acts 14:17 teaches. Isaiah 55:10 also uses rain to picture the effective, life-giving power of God’s word.
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- Leviticus 26:4
then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
- Zechariah 10:1
Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
- James 5:18
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
- Hosea 6:3
Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain that waters the earth."
- Jeremiah 5:24
Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
- Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
- 1 Kings 18:41-45
[41] Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain. [42] So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees. [43] He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times. [44] It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you. [45] It happened in a little while, that the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:
- Acts 14:17
Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."
- Job 5:10
Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields;
- Psalms 72:6
He will come down like rain on the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
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