He shrouded himself in darkness, ¹  in thick rain clouds. ² 

He shrouded himself in darkness, ¹  in thick rain clouds. ² 

“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. ¹  I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field ²  would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, ¹  as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

And the rain fell ¹  on the earth forty days and forty nights.

After a while, ¹  the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

he gives ¹  rain on the earth, ²  and sends ³  water on the fields; ⁴ 

When he imposed a limit ¹  for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, ² 

He draws up drops of water; they distill ¹  the rain into its mist, ² 

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

He ¹  will descend like rain on the mown grass, ²  like showers that drench ³  the earth. ⁴ 

The clouds poured down rain; ¹  the skies thundered. ²  Yes, your arrows ³  flashed about.

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.

He sent hail along with the rain; ¹  there was lightning in their land. ² 

The north wind ¹  brings forth rain, and a gossiping tongue ²  brings forth ³  an angry look. ⁴ 

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor ¹  is not fitting for a fool. ² 

A poor person ¹  who oppresses the weak is like ²  a driving rain without food. ³ 

Then ¹  he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.

Ask the Lord for rain in the season of the late spring rains ¹  – the Lord who causes thunderstorms – and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

Elijah was a human being ¹  like us, and he prayed earnestly ²  that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!