Showers

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.

I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.

So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.

Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.