רְבִיבִים

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

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.

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.