Zechariah 10:1
Ask the Lord for rain in springtime, for he makes the rainclouds and sends showers to grow crops for everyone.
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Deuteronomy 28:23The sky above you will be like bronze, and the earth beneath you will be like iron.
1 Kings 18:41Elijah told Ahab, “Go and eat and drink, for I hear the sound of a heavy rain coming.”
Job 36:27He draws up the water and distils it into the dew and the rain.
Psalms 65:9You care for the earth and water it; you make it very productive. God, your river is full of water to grow the grain—this is what you have planned.
Psalms 104:13You send down rain on the mountains from your home high above; you fill the earth with good things.
Proverbs 16:15If the king is smiling, you'll live; his blessing is like the clouds that bring spring 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 →