Zechariah 10:1ESV / 5 helpful votes
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.
Hosea 6:3ESV / 5 helpful votes
Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Jeremiah 3:3ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whor*; you refuse to be ashamed.
Joel 2:23ESV / 4 helpful votes
“Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
Ezekiel 34:26ESV / 4 helpful votes
And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
Jeremiah 5:24ESV / 4 helpful votes
They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’
Isaiah 44:3ESV / 4 helpful votes
For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.
Psalm 104:8ESV / 4 helpful votes
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
Psalm 72:6ESV / 4 helpful votes
May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!
Job 37:6ESV / 4 helpful votes
For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
Ezra 10:13ESV / 4 helpful votes
But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.
Ezra 10:9ESV / 4 helpful votes
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.
1 John 1:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
James 5:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.
Acts 14:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”
Matthew 7:25ESV / 3 helpful votes
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
Matthew 5:45ESV / 3 helpful votes
So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Amos 4:7ESV / 3 helpful votes
“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;
Ezekiel 38:22ESV / 3 helpful votes
With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Jeremiah 14:22ESV / 3 helpful votes
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.
Isaiah 55:10ESV / 3 helpful votes
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
Isaiah 18:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
Proverbs 30:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know!
Proverbs 28:3ESV / 3 helpful votes
A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.
Proverbs 25:23ESV / 3 helpful votes
The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
Psalm 68:1-35ESV / 3 helpful votes
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him! As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God! But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy! Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him! Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. ...
Job 29:23ESV / 3 helpful votes
They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Job 28:26ESV / 3 helpful votes
When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
Job 5:10ESV / 3 helpful votes
He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;
2 Samuel 23:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
He dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.
Leviticus 26:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Genesis 9:14ESV / 3 helpful votes
When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
Genesis 7:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”
Genesis 2:5ESV / 3 helpful votes
When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,
Revelation 17:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
Revelation 17:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Revelation 1:15ESV / 2 helpful votes
His feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.
Jude 1:24ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
1 John 4:18ESV / 2 helpful votes
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
1 John 3:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
2 Peter 3:9ESV / 2 helpful votes
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 3:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.
2 Peter 3:6ESV / 2 helpful votes
And that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.
James 5:18ESV / 2 helpful votes
Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
James 4:11ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Hebrews 9:19ESV / 2 helpful votes
For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
Hebrews 9:10ESV / 2 helpful votes
But deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
Hebrews 6:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.
Titus 3:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
Philippians 4:19ESV / 2 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Ephesians 5:26ESV / 2 helpful votes
That he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Galatians 5:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Romans 8:1-39ESV / 2 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...
Romans 6:23ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Acts 26:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
Delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you
Acts 3:19ESV / 2 helpful votes
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
Acts 3:1-26ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. ...
Acts 2:38ESV / 2 helpful votes
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:1-47ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
John 16:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
John 12:26ESV / 2 helpful votes
If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
John 10:9ESV / 2 helpful votes
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
John 9:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
And said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
John 8:32ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 4:24ESV / 2 helpful votes
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 3:16-17ESV / 2 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 2:7-9ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
John 2:6ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
Luke 12:54ESV / 2 helpful votes
He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens.
Luke 10:25-28ESV / 2 helpful votes
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
Mark 14:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,
Mark 11:24ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Matthew 24:44ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:42ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 24:36ESV / 2 helpful votes
“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.
Matthew 14:26-29ESV / 2 helpful votes
But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” and they cried out in fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.” And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.” He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.
Matthew 7:27ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”
Matthew 7:13-14ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Zechariah 14:18ESV / 2 helpful votes
And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the Lord afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.
Zechariah 10:1-12ESV / 2 helpful votes
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. For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. “My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the Lord of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle. From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler—all of them together. They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the Lord is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses. ...
Zechariah 9:11ESV / 2 helpful votes
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
Habakkuk 2:14ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Joel 2:1-32ESV / 2 helpful votes
Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations. Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run. As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle. ...
Hosea 10:12ESV / 2 helpful votes
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea 10:1-15ESV / 2 helpful votes
Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars. Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars and destroy their pillars. For now they will say: “We have no king, for we do not fear the Lord; and a king—what could he do for us?” They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field. The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced over it and over its glory— for it has departed from them. ...
Hosea 5:10ESV / 2 helpful votes
The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
Hosea 2:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
For their mother has played the whor*; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Ezekiel 36:25ESV / 2 helpful votes
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
Ezekiel 13:13-15ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end. And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord. Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it,
Ezekiel 7:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.
Ezekiel 1:28ESV / 2 helpful votes
Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Lamentations 5:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
Jeremiah 14:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
Because of the ground that is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
Jeremiah 5:25ESV / 2 helpful votes
Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.
Jeremiah 2:18ESV / 2 helpful votes
And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
Isaiah 43:2ESV / 2 helpful votes
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
Isaiah 41:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
