Job 38:28

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Summary

Job 38:28

Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Hath the

Dew

Hosea 14:5

Bible References

Hath the

Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb?

He does great things that we cannot understand and miracles that we cannot count.

It is the dry season and the wheat harvest. I will pray and Jehovah will send thunder and rain. When this happens, you will realize that you committed a great sin against Jehovah when you asked him for a king.

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.

They do not say in their hearts, to themselves: 'We should respect Jehovah our God. He sends rain at the right time, the autumn rain and the spring rain. He makes sure that we have harvest seasons.'

He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

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.

I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One received rain. The other did not receive rain and it dried up.

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.

Dew

My roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches.

May God give you of the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and new wine.

Blessed of Jehovah is his land. Bless it with the dew from heaven above and with the deep waters lying below.

Let no rain or dew fall on the mountains of Gilboa. Let its fields be barren! For the shields of the mighty lie there in disgrace. The shield of Saul is no longer polished with oil.

Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

By his knowledge the depths are broken up and the clouds drop down the dew.

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily and he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.