Zechariah 10:1 Cross References
Zechariah 10:1
1: Ask the LORD for rain in the spring, and he will give it. It is the LORD who makes storm clouds that drop showers of rain so that every field becomes a lush pasture.
Isaiah 44:3
- For I will give you abundant water to quench your thirst and to moisten your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit and my blessings on your children.
James 5:7
- Dear brothers and sisters, you must be patient as you wait for the Lord's return. Consider the farmers who eagerly look for the rains in the fall and in the spring. They patiently wait for the precious harvest to ripen.
James 5:16
- Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.
- 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.
Matthew 7:7
- "Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened.
- For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
Jeremiah 10:13
- When he speaks, there is thunder in the heavens. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Jeremiah 14:22
- 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.
Ezekiel 34:26
- I will cause my people and their homes around my holy hill to be a blessing. And I will send showers, showers of blessings, which will come just when they are needed.
Isaiah 30:23
- Then the LORD will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests and plenty of pastureland for your cattle.
Isaiah 5:6
- 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."
Micah 5:7
- Then the few left in Israel will go out among the nations. They will be like dew sent by the LORD or like rain falling on the grass, which no one can hold back.
Deuteronomy 28:23
- The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.
Joel 2:23
- 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.
- The threshing floors will again be piled high with grain, and the presses will overflow with wine and olive oil.
Job 36:27
- 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.
Hosea 10:12
- I said, `Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of my love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you.'
Proverbs 16:15
- When the king smiles, there is life; his favor refreshes like a gentle rain.
Deuteronomy 11:13
- "If you carefully obey all the commands I am giving you today, and if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul, and if you worship him,
- then he will send the rains in their proper seasons so you can harvest crops of grain, grapes for wine, and olives for oil.
1 Kings 18:41
- Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go and enjoy a good meal! For I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!"
- So Ahab prepared a feast. But Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel and fell to the ground and prayed.
- Then he said to his servant, "Go and look out toward the sea." The servant went and looked, but he returned to Elijah and said, "I didn't see anything." Seven times Elijah told him to go and look, and seven times he went.
- 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.
Jeremiah 51:16
- When he speaks, there is thunder in the heavens. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Amos 4:7
- "I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
Ezekiel 36:37
- "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am ready to hear Israel's prayers for these blessings, and I am ready to grant them their requests.
Psalms 65:9
- 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.
Psalms 72:6
- May his reign be as refreshing as the springtime rains--like the showers that water the earth.
Psalms 104:13
- You send rain on the mountains from your heavenly home, and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
Job 37:1
- "My heart pounds as I think of this. It leaps within me.
- Listen carefully to the thunder of God's voice as it rolls from his mouth.
- It rolls across the heavens, and his lightning flashes out in every direction.
- Then comes the roaring of the thunder--the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain the thunder when he speaks.
- God's voice is glorious in the thunder. We cannot comprehend the greatness of his power.
John 16:23
- At that time you won't need to ask me for anything. The truth is, you can go directly to the Father and ask him, and he will grant your request because you use my name.
Job 29:23
- They longed for me to speak as they longed for rain. They waited eagerly, for my words were as refreshing as the spring rain.
1 Kings 17:1
- Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, "As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives--the God whom I worship and serve--there will be no dew or rain during the next few years unless I give the word!"
1 Corinthians 3:6
- My job was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God, not we, who made it grow.
Hosea 6:3
- Oh, that we might know the LORD! Let us press on to know him! Then he will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring."