Zechariah 10:1

Ask ye of the Lord rain in the latter season, and the Lord will make snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 idols have spoken what was unprofitable, and the diviners have seen a lie, and the dreamers have spoken vanity: they comforted in vain: therefore they were led away as a dock: they shall be afflicted, because they have no shepherd.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.

1 Kings 18:41And Elias said to Achab: Go up, eat, and drink: for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

Job 36:27He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods :

Psalms 65:9and they that dwell in the uttermost borders shall be afraid at thy signs: thou shalt make the outgoings of the morning and of the evening to be joyful.

Psalms 104:13Thou waterest the hills from thy upper rooms: the earth shall be filled with the fruit of thy works:

Proverbs 16:15In the cheerfulness of the king's countenance is life: and his clemency is like the latter 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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