Proverbs 3:20

New English Translation

By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, and the clouds drip down dew.

Cross References

Genesis 1:9

God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.

Genesis 27:28

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

Jeremiah 14:22

Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”

Joel 2:23

Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the Lord your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains – both the early and the late rains as formerly.

Deuteronomy 33:28

Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew.