Ask rain from Yahweh in the season of [the] spring rain-- Yahweh, who makes storm clouds, and he gives showers of rain to them, to everyone vegetation in the field.

For look! The winter is over; {the rainy season} {has turned and gone away}.

Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh; his rising [is] sure like [the] dawn. He will come like the showers to us, like [the] spring rain that waters [the] earth.

In the light of the face of the king [there is] life, and his favor [is] like a cloud of spring rain.

And Yahweh will lead you continually, and satisfy your soul in a barren land, and he will strengthen your bones, and you shall be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring of water whose water does not fail.

Then today I came to the spring, and I said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, {if you would please make my journey successful}, upon which I am going.

{As long as the earth endures}, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease.

Be glad, children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for [your] righteousness, and he has {poured down} for you rainwater, [the] autumn and spring rains, as before.

[who] causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth,

You defined all [the] boundaries of [the] earth; Summer and winter--you formed them.

For as the earth {produces} its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations.

then 'I will send the rain for your land in its season, early rain and later rain, and you will gather your grain and your wine and your olive oil.

For to the snow he says, 'Fall [on the] earth'; and {the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain}--

Wilderness and dry land shall be glad, and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus.

For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they do not return there except they have watered the earth thoroughly and cause it to bring forth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

Look! the former things have come, and I declare new things. I {announce} [them] to you before they sprout up."

"Observe the month of Abib, and you shall keep [the] Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt [by] night.

because of the merciful compassion of our God by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high,

[The] righteous will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

So also you, when you see all these [things], know that he is near, at the door.

Faithfulness will sprout from [the] ground, and righteousness will look down from heaven.

For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.

For with you is [the] fountain of life; in your light we see light.

The blossoms {appear} {in the land}; {the time of singing has arrived}; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

but at the proper time has disclosed his message in the proclamation [with] which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior,

He said to him, "Go in peace," so he went from him {a short distance}.

[The] harvest has passed, [the] summer has come to an end, and we have not received help.

"Now learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer [is] near.

{It came about in the spring}, at the time {kings} go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the {Ammonites} and besieged Rabbah, but David [was] remaining in Jerusalem.

Then Israel sang this song, "Arise, well water! Sing to it!

Now [after] Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,

Have you entered into [the] storehouses of [the] snow, or have you seen [the] storehouses of [the] hail,

And he will give rain for your seed [with] which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and {fertile}. On that day, your cattle will graze [in] broad pastures;

[He] causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; [he] brings out [the] wind from his storehouses.