when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
“Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.
“I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.
fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?
He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
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