²³ They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.

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.

⁶ May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.