But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain. And we are not able to stand outside. And the work is not of one or two days. For we have greatly sinned in this thing.
And all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered to Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month. And all the people sat in the plaza of the house of God, trembling because of the matter, and because of the heavy rain.
Say to those daubing with lime, Yea, it will fall. There will be a flooding rain; and you, O stones of hail, shall fall, and a tempestuous wind shall break.
So the Lord Jehovah says this: I will even break in My fury with a tempestuous wind. And there shall be an overflowing rain in My anger, and stones of hail in My fury, to consume it.
who builds His staircase in the heavens, and His firmament He has founded over the earth; He who calls for the seawaters and pours them out on the face of the earth, Jehovah is His name.