Zechariah 10:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

Ye

Rain in

The time

Bright clouds

And give

General references

Job 38:34

Bible References

Ye

“This is what the Lord God says: I will respond to the house of Israel and do this for them: I will multiply them in number like a flock.

“Keep asking,

and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

In that day you will not ask Me anything.

“I assure you: Anything you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The urgent request of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.

Rain in

“If you carefully obey my commands I am giving you today, to love the Lord your God and worship Him with all your heart and all your soul,

The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, from the Gilead settlers,

said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives, I stand before Him, and there will be no dew or rain during these years except by my command!”

Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a rainstorm.”

I will make it a wasteland.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.

Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?
Or can the skies alone give showers?
Are You not the Lord our God?
We therefore put our hope in You,
for You have done all these things.

I also withheld the rain from you
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.

The time

I will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and oil.

They waited for me as for the rain
and opened their mouths as for spring showers.

When a king’s face lights up, there is life;
his favor is like a cloud with spring rain.

Let us strive to know the Lord.
His appearance is as sure as the dawn.
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring showers that water the land.

Children of Zion, rejoice and be glad
in the Lord your God,
because He gives you the autumn rain
for your vindication.

He sends showers for you,
both autumn and spring rain as before.

Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.

Bright clouds

For He makes waterdrops evaporate;
they distill the rain into its mist,

My heart pounds at this
and leaps from my chest.

When He thunders,
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds to rise
from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.

When He thunders,
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds
to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.

And give

You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.

He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants
and My blessing on your offspring.

I will make them and the area around My hill a blessing: I will send down showers in their season—showers of blessing.

Sow righteousness for yourselves
and reap faithful love;
break up your unplowed ground.
It is time to seek the Lord

until He comes and sends righteousness
on you like the rain.

Then the remnant of Jacob
will be among many peoples
like dew from the Lord,
like showers on the grass,
which do not wait for anyone
or linger for mankind.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

General references

Can you command the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?