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

Praise Jehovah! Praise the name of Jehovah. Praise him you servants of Jehovah.

Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

The seventh time he said: I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then Elijah said: Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

He wraps up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not burst by them.

He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams.

What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Prepareth

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow. You greatly enrich it! The stream of God is full of water. You prepare their grain and thus you prepare the earth.

You water the mountains from your upper chambers. The earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.

He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

The valueless gods of the nations cannot make it rain. The skies cannot give showers by themselves. But you can, O Jehovah our God. We hope in you because you do all these things.

Be glad you children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes it to rain, the early rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

You who turn justice to wormwood (a curse), and cast righteousness down to the earth

You will then act as true children of your Father in heaven. He gives sunlight to both evil and good people. He sends rain for the just and the unjust.

He has not left himself without witness. For he did good and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.