²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

⁸ By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

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

²⁶ Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

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

²⁸ Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

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.

⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

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

⁹ You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

¹⁰ You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

¹¹ The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,

¹² Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

¹³ The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

³⁴ Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

³³ The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

⁹ Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

⁵ In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

⁶ But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.