²⁶ When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

²⁵ By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

³ He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

¹ Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

⁷ And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

²² 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.

⁸ Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

³ The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters.

⁴ The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound.

⁵ By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.

⁶ He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox.

⁷ At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen.

⁸ At the voice of the Lord there is a shaking in the waste land, even a shaking in the waste land of Kadesh.

⁹ At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.

¹⁰ The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

²⁷ To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

³² He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

²⁶ Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.