Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
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Job 29:23
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
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Job 29:7
when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.
Job 29:8
The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 29:10
The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Job 29:11
For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it commended me,
Job 29:12
because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
Job 29:13
the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Job 29:15
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
Job 29:18
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
Job 29:20
My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’
Job 29:22
After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.
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Job 29:21
“Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
Job 29:24
I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.
Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
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Psalms 72:6
He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
Deuteronomy 11:14
that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
Joel 2:23
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
Joel 2:24
The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
Deuteronomy 32:2
My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
Isaiah 55:10
For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
Isaiah 55:11
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
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Psalms 119:131
I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
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