Ask rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain—
The Lord who makes the storm clouds;
And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man.

‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

In the light of a king’s face is life,
And his favor is like a cloud with the spring rain.

“And the Lord will continually guide you,
And satisfy your desire in scorched places,
And give strength to your bones;
And you will be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.

“So I came today to the spring, and said, ‘O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I go successful;

“While the earth remains,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And summer and winter,
And day and night
Shall not cease.”

So rejoice, O sons of Zion,
And be glad in the Lord your God;
For He has given you the early rain for your vindication.
And He has poured down for you the rain,
The early and latter rain as before.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

You have established all the boundaries of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
And as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up,
So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
To spring up before all the nations.

that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

“For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’
And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’

The wilderness and the desert will be glad,
And the Arabah will rejoice and blossom;
Like the crocus

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

“Behold, the former things have come to pass,
Now I declare new things;
Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

“Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,

The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree,
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door.

Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.

For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.

For with You is the fountain of life;
In Your light we see light.

‘The flowers have already appeared in the land;
The time has arrived for pruning the vines,
And the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.

but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him some distance.

“Harvest is past, summer is ended,
And we are not saved.”

“Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near;

Then it happened in the spring, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel, and they destroyed the sons of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem.

Then Israel sang this song:
“Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,

“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow,
Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,

Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightnings for the rain,
Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.