Zechariah 10:1

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.

De 11:13; De 11:14; De 28:23; 1Ki 17:1; 1Ki 18:41-45; Job 29:23; Job 36:27-31; Job 37:1-6; Ps 65:9; Ps 72:6; Ps 104:13; Pr 16:15; Isa 5:6; Isa 30:23; Isa 44:3; Jer 10:13; Jer 14:22; Jer 51:16; Eze 34:26; Eze 36:37; Ho 6:3; Ho 10:12; Joe 2:23,24; Am 4:7; Mic 5:7; Mt 7:7,8; Joh 16:23; 1Co 3:6; Jas 5:7; Jas 5:16-18

¹ tn Heb “the latter rain.” This expression refers to the last concentration of heavy rainfall in the spring of the year in Palestine, about March or April. Metaphorically and eschatologically (as here) the “latter rain” speaks of God’s outpouring of blessing in the end times (cf. Hos 6:3; Joel 2:21-25).