Psalms 147:8 Cross References

Psalms 147:8

8: He covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the green grass grow in mountain pastures.

He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight.
He shrouds his throne with his clouds.

You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
You cause grass to grow for the cattle. You cause plants to grow for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth--

but he never left himself without a witness. There were always his reminders, such as sending you rain and good crops and giving you food and joyful hearts."

In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too.

You take care of the earth and water it, making it rich and fertile. The rivers of God will not run dry; they provide a bountiful harvest of grain, for you have ordered it so.
You drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops.
You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.
The wilderness becomes a lush pasture, and the hillsides blossom with joy.
The meadows are clothed with flocks of sheep, and the valleys are carpeted with grain. They all shout and sing for joy!

Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for the next three and a half years!
Then he prayed for rain, and down it poured. The grass turned green, and the crops began to grow again.

You wicked people! You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the poor and oppressed. Righteousness and fair play are meaningless fictions to you.
It is the LORD who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. It is he who turns darkness into morning and day into night. It is he who draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The LORD is his name!

He draws up the water vapor and then distills it into rain.
The rain pours down from the clouds, and everyone benefits from it.
Can anyone really understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven?
See how he spreads the lightning around him and how it lights up the depths of the sea.
By his mighty acts he governs the people, giving them food in abundance.

Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD! Praise him, you who serve the LORD,

Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the LORD your God! For the rains he sends are an expression of his grace. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring.

Can any of the foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, it comes from you, the LORD our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.

I will make it a wild place. I will not prune the vines or hoe the ground. I will let it be overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no more rain on it."

Finally the seventh time, his servant told him, "I saw a little cloud about the size of a hand rising from the sea." Then Elijah shouted, "Hurry to Ahab and tell him, `Climb into your chariot and go back home. If you don't hurry, the rain will stop you!'"
And sure enough, the sky was soon black with clouds. A heavy wind brought a terrific rainstorm, and Ahab left quickly for Jezreel.

Where is the path to the origin of light? Where is the home of the east wind?
"Who created a channel for the torrents of rain? Who laid out the path for the lightning?
Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives?
Who sends the rain that satisfies the parched ground and makes the tender grass spring up?

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