Zechariah 10:1

Ask ye of the Lord rain in season, the early and the latter: the Lord has given bright signs, and will give them abundant rain, to everyone grass in the field.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23And thou shalt have over thy head a sky of brass, and the earth under thee shall be iron.

1 Kings 18:41And Elijah said to Ahab, Go up, and eat and drink, for there is a sound of the coming of rain.

Job 36:27And the drops of rain are numbered by him, 1 And shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud. 1

Psalms 65:9Who quickens my soul in life, 1 And does not suffer my feet to be moved. 1

Psalms 104:13And they went from nation to nation, 1 And from one kingdom to another people. 1

Proverbs 16:15The son of a king is in the light of life; 1 And they that are in favor with him are as a cloud of latter rain. 1

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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