Zechariah 10:1

Ask all of you 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.

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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 vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

1 Kings 18:41And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

Job 36:27For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

Psalms 65:9You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them corn, when you have so provided for it.

Psalms 104:13He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.

Proverbs 16:15In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour 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 →

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