Zechariah 10:1

Petition before the Lord for rain in the latter time, and the Lord will produce snows and will give showers of rain to them, to each blade in the field.

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In The King James Version

Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

In Context

2For the images have been speaking what is useless, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have been speaking false hope: they have comforted in vain. For this reason, they have been led away like a flock; they will be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23May the heavens which are above you be of brass, and may the ground upon which you tread be of iron.

1 Kings 18:41And Elijah said to Ahab “Ascend; eat and drink. For there is the sound of an abundance of rain.”

Job 36:27He carries away the drops of rain, and he sends forth showers like a raging whirlpool;

Psalms 65:9He has set my soul toward life, and he has granted that my feet may not be shaken.

Psalms 104:13and though they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people,

Proverbs 16:15In the cheerfulness of the king’s countenance, there is life. And his clemency is like belated rain.

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 10:1

The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter—to encourage the Jews that had returned with hopes that though they had been under divine rebukes for their negligence in rebuilding the temple, and were now surrounded with enemies and dangers, yet God would do them good, and make them prosperous at home and victorious abroad. Now, I. They are here directed to eye the great God in all events that concerned them, and, both in the evils they suffered and in the comforts they desired, to… Read the whole commentary →

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