You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.
He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;
My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants: