Zechariah 10:1
Ask from the Lord rain at the time of the latter rain, [from] the Lord who maketh lightning-clouds: and he will give unto them showers of rain, to every herb in the field.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:23And thy heavens that are over thy head shall be copper, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
1 Kings 18:41And Elijah said unto Achab, Go up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
Job 36:27For he taketh away drops of water, which are purified into rain in his mist:
Psalms 65:9(65:10) Thou hast thought of the earth, and waterest her abundantly; thou greatly enrichest her; the brook of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, when thou hast thus prepared her.
Psalms 104:13Who watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: from the fruit of thy works is the earth satisfied.
Proverbs 16:15In the light of the king's countenance there is life; and his favor is as a cloud of 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 →