Jeremiah 14:22

New Century Version

Do foreign idols have the power to bring rain? Does the sky itself have the power to send down showers? No, it is you, Lord our God. You are our only hope, because you are the one who made all these things.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite was a prophet from the settlers in Gilead. “I serve the Lord, the God of Israel,” Elijah said to Ahab. “As surely as the Lord lives, no rain or dew will fall during the next few years unless I command it.”

1 Kings 17:14

The Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘That jar of flour will never be empty, and the jug will always have oil in it, until the day the Lord sends rain to the land.’ ”

1 Kings 18:1

During the third year without rain, the Lord spoke his word to Elijah: “Go and meet King Ahab, and I will soon send rain.”

1 Kings 8:36

When this happens, please hear their prayer in heaven, and forgive the sins of your servants, the Israelites. Teach them to do what is right. Then please send rain to this land you have given particularly to them.

Job 28:26

when he made rules for the rain and set a path for a thunderstorm to follow,

Job 5:10

He gives rain to the earth and sends water on the fields.

Psalm 130:5

I wait for the Lord to help me, and I trust his word.

Psalm 135:7

He brings the clouds from the ends of the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain. He brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Psalm 147:8

He fills the sky with clouds and sends rain to the earth and makes grass grow on the hills.

Psalm 25:21

My hope is in you, so may goodness and honesty guard me.

Psalm 25:3

No one who trusts you will be disgraced, but those who sin without excuse will be disgraced.

Psalm 27:14

Wait for the Lord’s help. Be strong and brave, and wait for the Lord’s help.

Isaiah 30:18

The Lord wants to show his mercy to you. He wants to rise and comfort you. The Lord is a fair God, and everyone who waits for his help will be happy.

Isaiah 30:23

At that time the Lord will send rain for the seeds you plant in the ground, and the ground will grow food for you. The harvest will be rich and great, and you will have plenty of food in the fields for your animals.

Isaiah 41:29

Look, all these idols are false. They cannot do anything; they are worth nothing.

Jeremiah 10:12

God made the earth by his power. He used his wisdom to build the world and his understanding to stretch out the skies.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he thunders, the waters in the skies roar. He makes clouds rise in the sky all over the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worth nothing; people make fun of them. When they are judged, they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 10:3

The customs of other people are worth nothing. Their idols are just wood cut from the forest, shaped by a worker with his chisel.

Jeremiah 16:19

Lord, you are my strength and my protection, my safe place in times of trouble. The nations will come to you from all over the world and say, “Our ancestors had only false gods, useless idols that didn’t help them.

Jeremiah 5:12

Those people have lied about the Lord and said, “He will not do anything to us! Nothing bad will happen to us! We will never see war or hunger!

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say to themselves, ‘We should fear the Lord our God, who gives us autumn and spring rains in their seasons, who makes sure we have the harvest at the right time.’

Jeremiah 51:16

When he thunders, the waters in the skies roar. He makes clouds rise in the sky all over the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Hosea 2:7

She will run after her lovers, but she won’t catch them. She will look for them, but she won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my first husband, because life was better then for me than it is now.’

Joel 2:23

So be happy, people of Jerusalem; be joyful in the Lord your God. Because he does what is right, he has brought you rain; he has sent the fall rain and the spring rain for you, as before.

Amos 4:7

“I held back the rain from you three months before harvest time. Then I let it rain on one city but not on another. Rain fell on one field, but another field got none and dried up.

Micah 5:6

They will destroy the Assyrians with their swords; they will conquer the land of Assyria with their swords drawn. They will rescue us from the Assyrians when they come into our land, when they walk over our borders.

Micah 7:7

Israel says, “I will look to the Lord for help. I will wait for God to save me; my God will hear me.

Matthew 5:45

If you do this, you will be true children of your Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on good people and on evil people, and he sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open up his heavenly storehouse so that the skies send rain on your land at the right time, and he will bless everything you do. You will lend to other nations, but you will not need to borrow from them.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They used things that are not gods to make me jealous and worthless idols to make me angry. So I will use those who are not a nation to make them jealous; I will use a nation that does not understand to make them angry.