Deuteronomy 32:2
May my teaching fall gently like the rain; may my words drop lightly like the dew, like soft rain on new grass, like spring showers on growing plants.
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1Heaven, listen as I speak; Earth, hear what I'm saying.
3I will praise the Lord's character. Tell everyone how great he is!
Cross References
Job 29:22Once I had spoken they had nothing else to say; what I said was enough.
Isaiah 55:10It's like the rain and snow that fall from heaven. They don't go back there until they've watered the earth, making plants grow and flower, providing seeds for the sower and food to eat.
Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel, they will blossom like lilies, they will send down roots like the cedars of Lebanon.
Micah 5:7Then those who are left of the people of Jacob shall be in the center of many nations, like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which wait for no one, and which no one can delay.
1 Corinthians 3:6I did the planting, Apollos did the watering—but it was God who made you grow!
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:2-7
The Song of Moses. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: 3 Because I will publish the name of the Lord : ascribe ye greatness unto our God. 4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 5 They have corrupted themselves, their… Read the whole commentary →