Bible Verses About Rain

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

After a long time, in the third year of the drought, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.”

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”

Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.

When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.

But there are many people here, and it is the rainy season. We are not able to stay out in the open. Nor is this the work of one or two days, for we have transgressed greatly in this matter.

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

When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.

when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.