¹⁰ Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields;

¹⁷ Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you{TR reads "us" instead of "you"} rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

²² Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

²⁴ Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

⁸ Who covers the sky with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass grow on the mountains.

⁷ "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.

¹³ when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

⁹ You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

¹⁰ You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.

²⁶ To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;

²⁷ To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?

²⁸ Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

²⁸ Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.

²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;