Jeremiah 14:22

New American Bible - revised edition

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”

1 Kings 17:14

For the Lord, the God of Israel, says: The jar of flour shall not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, until the day when the Lord sends rain upon the earth.”

1 Kings 18:1

Long afterward, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: Go, present yourself to Ahab, that I may send rain upon the earth.

1 Kings 8:36

listen in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel (for you teach them the good way in which they should walk). Give rain to this land of yours which you have given to your people as their heritage.

Job 28:26

When he made a rule for the rain and a path for the thunderbolts,

Job 5:10

He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;

Psalm 130:5

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits and I hope for his word.

Psalm 135:7

It is he who raises storm clouds from the end of the earth, makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth wind from his storehouse.

Psalm 147:8

Who covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, makes grass sprout on the mountains,

Psalm 25:21

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; I wait for you, O Lord.

Psalm 25:3

No one is disgraced who waits for you, but only those who are treacherous without cause.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the Lord, take courage; be stouthearted, wait for the Lord!

Isaiah 30:18

Truly, the Lord is waiting to be gracious to you, truly, he shall rise to show you mercy; For the Lord is a God of justice: happy are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 30:23

He will give rain for the seed you sow in the ground, And the bread that the soil produces will be rich and abundant. On that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows;

Isaiah 41:29

Ah, all of them are nothing, their works are nought, their idols, empty wind!

Jeremiah 10:12

The one who made the earth by his power, established the world by his wisdom, and by his skill stretched out the heavens.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar, and he brings up clouds from the end of the earth, Makes lightning flash in the rain, and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are nothing, objects of ridicule; they will perish in their time of punishment.

Jeremiah 10:3

For the carvings of the nations are nonentities, wood cut from the forest, Fashioned by artisans with the adze,

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, my strength, my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress! To you nations will come from the ends of the earth, and say, “Our ancestors inherited mere frauds, empty, worthless.”

Jeremiah 5:12

They denied the Lord, saying, “He is nothing, No evil shall come to us, neither sword nor famine shall we see.

Jeremiah 5:24

And do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear the Lord, our God, Who gives us rain early and late, in its time; Who watches for us over the appointed weeks of harvest.”

Jeremiah 51:16

When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar, he summons clouds from the ends of the earth, Makes lightning flash in the rain, and brings out winds from their storehouses.

Hosea 2:7

Yes, their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”

Joel 2:23

Children of Zion, delight and rejoice in the Lord, your God! For he has faithfully given you the early rain, sending rain down on you, the early and the late rains as before.

Amos 4:7

And I withheld the rain from you when the harvest was still three months away; I sent rain upon one city but not upon another; One field was watered by rain, but the one I did not water dried up;

Micah 5:6

The remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew coming from the Lord, like showers on the grass, Which wait for no one, delay for no human being.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the Lord, I will wait for God my savior; my God will hear me!

Matthew 5:45

that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open up for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give your land rain in due season and to bless all the works of your hands. You will lend to many nations but borrow from none.

Deuteronomy 32:21

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.