for He says to the snow, Fall on the earth, and the stormy rain, and the storm of the showers of His might.

For by them He will judge the nations: He will give food to him that has strength.

And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth?

For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.

Behold, tomorrow at this hour I will rain a very great hail, such as has not been in Egypt from the time it was created until this day.

He who feared the word of the Lord among Pharaoh's servants gathered his cattle into the houses.

And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on the men and on the cattle, and on all the herbs on the land.

So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt from the time there was a nation upon it.

And Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunders and rain in that day. And all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel.

And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, and let us not die; for we have added to all our sins this iniquity, in asking for us a king.

So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. This [was] the ninth month. On the twentieth day of the month all the people sat down in the street of the house of the Lord, because of their alarm concerning the word, and because of the storm.

to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land,

and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and fixed it for herself on the rock in the beginning of the barley harvest, until water dropped upon them out of heaven. And she did not allow the birds of the air to rest upon them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all things that the king commanded. And after this God hearkened to [the prayers of] the land.

And it came to pass in the meanwhile, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab wept, and went to Jezreel.

Rejoice then and be glad, you children of Zion, in the Lord your God; for He has given you food fully, and He will rain on you the early and the latter rain, as before.