Psalm 147:8

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Summary

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

Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.

And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,

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

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

Prepareth

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.

But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.