Bible Verses About Rain

Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

After many days, the LORD’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”

Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”

In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

“When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

“If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

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

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand outside; neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.

For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth;’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.