Psalm 147:8

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Psalm 147:8

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Covereth

Isaiah 5:6

Prepareth

Bible References

Covereth

Hallelujah! Praise the name of the LORD! Give praise, you servants of the LORD,

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow becomes visible in the clouds,

But Elijah told him to go back seven times. On the seventh look, he said, "Look! There's a cloud, a small one, about the size of a man's hand. It's coming up out of the sea!" "Get up and find Ahab!" Elijah said. "Tell him, "Mount your chariot and ride down the mountain so the storm doesn't stop you.'"

"He restricts the waters within clouds and the clouds don't burst open under them.

He draws up drops of water, distilling it to rain and mist.

Where is the lightning diffused or the east wind scattered around the earth?

I'll make it a wasteland, and it won't be pruned or cultivated. Instead, briers and thorns will grow up. I'll also issue commands to the clouds, that they drop no rain upon it."

Prepareth

You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way.

He waters the mountains from his heavenly rooms; the earth is satisfied from the fruit of your work.

He sends rain on the surface of the earth, and waters the surface of the open country.

Can any of the worthless gods of the nations make it rain? Can the heavens themselves bring forth showers? Aren't you the one who does this, LORD our God? So we hope in you, for you are the one who does all these things.

And so be glad, children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, because he has given you the right amount of early rain, and he will cause the rain to fall for you, both the early rain and the later rain as before.

Those of you who are making justice taste bitter, and who have thrown righteousness to the ground:

so that you will become children of your Father in heaven, because he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.

yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."

Elijah was a person just like us, and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and rain never came to the land for three years and six months.