God, you built your home above them. {\cf2\super [541]} \par You use the thick clouds like a chariot,\par and ride across the sky\par on the wings of the wind.\par
God causes the loud thunder,\par and he causes great floods of water to fall from the sky.\par He makes clouds rise in the sky every place on earth.\par He sends lightning with the rain.\par He brings out the wind from his storehouses.\par
Foreign idols don’t have the power\par to bring rain.\par The sky does not have the power\par to send showers of rain down.\par You are our only hope.\par You are the One who made all these things.”\par
The Lord built his upper rooms\par above the skies.\par He put his skies {\cf2\super [113]} over the earth.\par He calls for the waters of the sea,\par and pours them out \{as rain\} on the land.\par YAHWEH {\cf2\super [114]} is his name.\par
If you do this, then you will be true sons of your Father in heaven. Your Father lets the sun rise for the good people and the bad people. Your Father sends rain to people that do good and to people that do wrong.
But God was always there doing things that prove he is real. He gives you rain from the sky. He gives you good harvests at the right times. He gives you plenty of food, and he fills your hearts with joy.”
But the land that you will soon get is not like that. In Israel there are mountains and valleys. And the land gets its water from the rain that falls from the sky.