And it shall be, whoever will not go up from the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, even there shall be no rain on them.
These were the families of the sons of Noah, by their generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were divided in the earth after the flood.
And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your Seed.
And Elijah the Tishbite, of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.
When the heavens are restrained, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they have prayed toward this place, and confess Your name, and have turned from their sin because You have afflicted them,
When the heavens shall be shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they shall pray toward this place, and confess Your name, turning back from their sin because You have afflicted them,
Then shall be brought in that time to Jehovah of Hosts a present from a tall and smooth people, and a dreadful people, from it and onward; a nation of might, with a measuring line of trampling, whose land the rivers have divided, to the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts: Mount Zion.
I have sworn by Myself, the Word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not turn back, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned and not hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And on the clouds I will command the rain from raining on it.
Pour out Your fury on the nations who do not know You, and on the families who do not call on Your name. For they have eaten up Jacob. Yea, they ate him up and have finished him, and they have made his dwelling place desolate.
Among the vanities of the nations are there any who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Therefore we will wait for You; for You do all these.
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters. They came to the cisterns; they found no waters. They returned with their vessels empty. They were ashamed and blushed and covered their head.
And it shall be, everyone who is left from all the nations who came up against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.
and the anger of Jehovah burn against you, and He shut up the heavens, and there be no rain, and the ground not give her increase, and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving to you.
These have the authority to shut up the heaven, that no rain may rain in the days of the prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they will.