Job 38 Cross References - VIN

¹ Then the LORD answered Job from the storm, and he said, ² Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? ³ "Prepare yourself like a man! I will question you, and you shall answer me. ⁴ "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. ⁵ "Who determined its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? ⁶ "On what were its foundations set and who laid its cornerstone? ⁷ while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? ⁸ "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb? ⁹ "When I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, ¹⁰ when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, ¹¹ when I said: 'This far you may come and no farther'; here is where your proud waves halt? ¹² "Have you ever commanded the morning, or shown the dawn its place? ¹³ »It might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? ¹⁴ "The earth takes shape like clay under a seal. Its features stand out like those of a garment. ¹⁵ "The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. ¹⁶ "Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? ¹⁷ "Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? ¹⁸ "Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. ¹⁹ "Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And where does darkness reside? ²⁰ "Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings? ²¹ "Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! ²² "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail? ²³ "These I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle. ²⁴ "What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? ²⁵ "Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm? ²⁶ "Who waters a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it? ²⁷ Who satisfies a desolate wasteland to make it sprout with grass? ²⁸ Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? ²⁹ "From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens ³⁰ when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? ³¹ "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion? ³² Can you bring out the constellations in their season; or can you guide the Bear with its sons? ³³ "Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth? ³⁴ "Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water? ³⁵ "Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you: Here we are? ³⁶ "Who endowed the innermost being with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind? ³⁷ "Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens? ³⁸ This when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? ³⁹ "Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions ⁴⁰ when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? ⁴¹ "Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

¹⁶ When morning came on the third day, there was thunder and lightning with a heavy cloud over the mountain and the very loud sound of a ram's horn. All the people in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the foot of the mountain. ¹⁸ Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace. The whole mountain quaked violently! ¹⁹ When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.

¹¹ And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. ¹² the LORD your God spoke from the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but you saw no form; there was only a voice.

²² "These commands the LORD declared in a loud voice to your entire assembly on the mountain from out of the fire and dark clouds, and nothing more was added. He inscribed them on two tablets of stones and gave them to me. ²³ And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me, ²⁴ and ye said, 'Behold, the LORD our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire, and we have seen this day that God may talk with a man and he yet live.

¹¹ He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” Behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

¹ When the LORD was about to take Elijah up in the storm to heaven, Elijah and Elisha went from Gilgal.

¹¹ Then they were walking, talking as they went. Suddenly a fiery chariot with horses of fire appeared and separated between the two of them. Elijah went up in the storm to the heavens

¹ "About this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place. ² Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes out from His mouth.

⁹ "The storm wind comes from its chamber and cold from the north wind.

¹⁴ "Listen to this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.

⁶ Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,

⁴ I saw a storm coming from the north. There was an immense cloud with flashing lightning surrounded by a bright light. The center of the lightning looked like glowing metal.

³ the LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: the LORD, -- his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

³ »I have a mind as well as you! I am not inferior to you! Who does not know all these things?

⁴ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ "I would learn what he would answer and perceive what he would say to me.

²⁵ "And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"

³ How you have counseled one without wisdom, And the reality of things you have abundantly made known!"

¹¹ "I will teach you about the power of God; the ways of the Almighty I will not conceal.

³⁵ 'Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without insight.

¹⁶ therefore Job opens his mouth in empty talk— without knowledge he multiplies words."

³ "You asked: 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge? Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.'

⁷ They want to be teachers of the Law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

¹¹ "'This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it hurriedly it's the LORD's Passover.

⁴⁶ The hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

²² "Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply.

³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! I would come even unto his dwelling-place; ⁴ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ "I would learn what he would answer and perceive what he would say to me. ⁶ Would he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. ⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my mark. Let the Almighty answer me, and my Accuser write an indictment. ³⁶ "Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown. ³⁷ "I would give him an account of all my steps. Like a prince I would approach him.

⁷ "Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

¹⁷ But you, you must gird your loins, and stand, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be afraid of them, or I will shatter you before them.

¹³ Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

¹ In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

²⁵ In the beginning You, O Lord, laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Your hands.

⁵ He laid the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever.

²² "the LORD possessed me, the first of his ways, before his acts of old.

²⁹ when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, ³⁰ then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

⁴ Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what is the name of his child? For surely you know.

² But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.

¹⁰ And, "In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

⁹ "Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

²⁵ He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

⁴ Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

⁵⁵ He drove out nations before them and allotted their tribal inheritance, settling the tribes of Israel in their tents.

²⁷ when he crafted the heavens, I was there when he marked out a circle on the face of the deep,

²⁹ when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

¹¹ but the pelican and the porcupine will possess it, the owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?

²² He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

¹ Then I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand. ² Then I asked: "Where are you going?" He said to me: "To measure Jerusalem, to see the width and the length of it."

¹⁶ so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast of work already done in another man's territory.

¹⁸ "Make twenty frames for the south side of the inner tent. ¹⁹ And forty silver bases thou shalt make under the twenty boards: two bases for the one board for its two hands. ²⁰ For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards, ²¹ With their forty silver bases, two under every board. ²² "Prepare six frames for the far end, the west side. ²³ And you will make two frames for the tabernacle corners at the rear. ²⁴ The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles. ²⁵ »There will be eight frames with sixteen silver sockets, two at the bottom of each frame.

⁸ he raises the poor from the dust; and lifts the needy from the dunghill - to set them among volunteers - to inherit the throne of honor: for the pillars of the earth are unto Yah Veh and on them he set the world.

⁷ he spreads out the north over empty space, suspending the earth over nothing.

² for he founded it on the seas and established it on the rivers.

¹ The LORD reigns. He is clothed with majesty. The LORD is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can't be moved.

²² The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

¹² Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

¹⁶ Therefore the Sovereign LORD says this: "Look! I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: 'The one who trusts will not panic.'

¹ An oracle. The word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

²⁰ built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. ²¹ in whom the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord;

⁵ But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

¹¹ And they sang, praising and giving thanks unto the LORD because he is good, for his mercy endures for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. ¹² But many of the elderly priests, Levites, and heads of the families who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house, but many shouted aloud with joy.

⁶ Now on the day when God's sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan also came among them.

¹ And then one day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before the LORD.

⁴ He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

⁷ 'Who are you O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground, and he will bring out the top stone amid the shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" '"

²⁸ "'I will give him the morning star.

¹¹ And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels about the throne, and about the beasts and the elders, and I heard thousand thousands,

¹⁶ "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star."

⁹ And God said, "Let the waters under heaven be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear." And it was so.

¹⁰ when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

⁷ He gathered the waters of the ocean into a heap; he put the deeps into storehouses.

⁸ they ascend by the mountains; they descend by the valleys to the place you founded for them. ⁹ You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

²² "Do you not reverence (respect) me?" Asks the LORD. "Do you not tremble [with awe] in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier it cannot cross. Although the waves toss continuously, they cannot break through. Although they roar, they cannot cross it.

² Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

⁹ And God said, "Let the waters under heaven be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear." And it was so. ¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth, and the gatherings of the waters he called Seas, and God saw that it was good.

¹⁵ "I will remember my covenant with you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters flood to destroy all life.

¹⁰ "He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.

⁹ You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

²² In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

⁶ the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.

⁶ Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength; ⁷ who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

⁹ You rule over the majestic sea; when its waves surge, you calm them.

³ The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their pounding waves. ⁴ Mightier than the rumblings of many waters, mightier than the mighty breakers of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty.

⁸ By warfare and exile you contend with her. With his fierce blast he drives her out, as on a day the east wind blows.

³⁹ So he got up, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind quieted down, and there was a great calm. ⁴⁰ And He said to His disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you not still have [any] faith?” ⁴¹ And they feared exceedingly, and said to each other: Who then is this? Even the wind and the sea obey him!

³² Now a large herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside; and they begged him to let them enter them. So he gave them permission. ³³ Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

² He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. ³ He threw him into the pit, and closed it and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that time, he must be released for a short while.

⁷ When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison, ⁸ and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁹ "After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.

⁷ "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

⁴ "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.

²¹ "Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years!

¹⁶ Yours is the day, and yours is the night; you established the moon and the sun.

⁷ Who made the great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. ⁸ the sun to rule by day; for His grace endures forever;

³ Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars. ⁴ Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.

⁷⁸ because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,

¹⁹ And we have the prophetic word made more sure, and you will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

²⁷ Moses held out his hand over the sea. At daybreak the water returned to its normal level. The Egyptians tried to escape from the water. But the LORD threw them into the sea.

¹³ These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths. ¹⁴ With the light, riseth the murderer, He slayeth the poor and needy, And, in the night, he becometh like a thief. ¹⁵ And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk, saying, 'No eye will see me,' and he places a covering on his face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in; they know not the light: ¹⁷ "For deep darkness is morning to all of them. They are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

³ He releases his lightning throughout the sky, to the ends of the earth.

⁴ Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, ⁵ which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. ⁶ It rises from one end of the heavens. It circles around to the other. Nothing is hidden from its heat.

²¹ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. ²² The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

³⁵ Let the sinners perish from the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD!

⁹ If I lift up the wings of the dawn, and I alight on the far side of the sea, ¹⁰ even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. ¹¹ If I say: Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light around me. ¹² even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

² He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

⁶ You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

²¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, and let there be darkness over the land of Egypt darkness that may be felt. ²² Moses raised his hand toward the sky. Total darkness fell throughout Egypt for three days. ²³ No one could see anyone else, nor could anyone get up from his place for three days. But there was light for all the Israelites in their dwellings.

¹⁸ They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, "Please strike this people with blindness," so he struck them with blindness as Elisha had spoken.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

⁵ "The lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire shall not shine.

¹⁸ "He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evil one; search out his wickedness until You find none.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.

²¹ And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards. ²² and they will look to the earth; and behold, trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into thick darkness.

¹⁶ Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.

²² "The Sovereign LORD says: 'I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong and the broken. I will make the sword fall from his hand.

¹⁰ and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord? ¹¹ Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

⁵ “The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. ⁶ Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

¹⁹ Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

²⁴ When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.

³⁶ Therefore thus said the LORD; Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

⁵ "Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it once more. May a cloud settle over it and may blackness overwhelm its light.

²² "He uncovers the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

¹³ Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

¹⁰ Those who sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron—

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

¹⁸ They loathed all food, and even reached the gates of death.

³ The cords of death compassed me, and the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow

⁸ The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day into night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name!

¹⁶ the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

²⁴ For He looks to the ends of the earth; He sees everything under the heavens.

¹⁷ You set all the boundaries of the earth; you made summer and winter.

¹¹ The heavens are Yours, and the earth is Yours; You have founded the world, and the fullness of it. ¹² You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

²⁸ "Do you not know? Have you not heard? the LORD IS THE EVERLASTING GOD, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and no one can measure (find out) his understanding.

³⁷ Thus says the LORD, "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done," declares the LORD.

⁹ They came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, and the beloved city. Then fire came down from heaven and consumed them.

³ And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good. God separated the light from the darkness.

¹⁴ God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years; ¹⁵ and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so. ¹⁶ God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth, ¹⁸ and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ and lest having looked up to the sky, and having seen the sun and the moon and the stars, and all the heavenly bodies, you should go astray and worship them, and serve them, which the Lord your God has distributed to all the nations under heaven.

¹² "Have you ever commanded the morning, or shown the dawn its place? ¹³ »It might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?

¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air.

²⁰ You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls.

²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark. And they rebelled against his words.

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

⁸ "'All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you. And I will set darkness on your land,' proclaims the Sovereign LORD.

¹³ "Behold he who formed the mountains and created the wind and declared to man his thoughts, also made the morning darkness and treads upon the high places of the Earth: the LORD, the God of Hosts, is his name."

⁴⁵ From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

⁹ The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.

¹² Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

¹⁹ and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

¹⁷ So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

¹² "Have you ever commanded the morning, or shown the dawn its place?

¹⁶ when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,

⁶ "He says to the snow: 'Fall on the earth.' He says to the rain: 'Be strong.'

⁷ He causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; he brings out the wind from his storehouses.

¹⁸ Look! About this time tomorrow, I'll send a severe hail storm, such as has not happened in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

²⁴ It hailed, and lightning flashed while it hailed. This was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

¹¹ While they were fleeing in front of Israel and descending the slope of Beth-horon, the LORD rained down huge hailstones on them as far as Azekah, and they died. More died because of the hailstones than were killed by the Israelites in battle.

¹³ "The godless in heart harbor resentment. Even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.

³¹ "This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.

³⁰ And the LORD shall make the majesty of His voice heard; and He shows His arm coming down with raging anger and flame of consuming fire, cloudburst and storm, and hailstones.

¹¹ »So tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall. A flooding rain will come, and you, O hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will break out. ¹² And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it? ¹³ "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: 'In my fury I will cause a storm to break out. In my anger rain will pour down, and hailstones will destroy the wall.

²⁷ The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, and down it fell — with a mighty crash."

²¹ Huge hailstones, about a hundred pounds each, fell from heaven upon men. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.

⁸ When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

²⁷ For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

²⁶ when he made rules for the rain and set paths for the thunderstorms,

²⁷ "He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams. ²⁸ "The clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.

³ He releases his lightning throughout the sky, to the ends of the earth. ⁴ After it, his voice roars; it thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard. ⁵ God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things, and we do not understand. ⁶ "He says to the snow: 'Fall on the earth.' He says to the rain: 'Be strong.'

³ The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders. the LORD is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic. ⁵ The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars. Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. ⁶ He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. ⁷ The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning. ⁸ The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and strippeth the forests bare; and in His temple all say: 'Glory.' ¹⁰ the LORD sat enthroned over the flood. the LORD sits enthroned as king forever.

²⁷ "He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams.

¹⁰ He causes springs to gush forth into rivers that flow between the mountains. ¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild donkeys quench their thirst. ¹² The birds of the sky nest by them, they sing among the branches. ¹³ He watereth the mountains from his upper-chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. ¹⁴ He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,

³⁵ He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

⁸ He covers the sky with clouds. He provides rain for the ground. He makes grass grow on the mountains. ⁹ He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

¹ The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like the crocus. ² It will blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the excellency of our God.

¹⁸ "I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. ¹⁹ "I will put the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive in the desert. I will set pines in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together.

¹⁹ Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. ²⁰ The field life shall glorify Me; the jackals and the ostrich. For I provide water in the wilderness, streams in the desolation, to give drink to My people, and My chosen."

²² Can any of the worthless gods of the nations make it rain? Can the heavens themselves bring forth showers? Aren't you the one who does this, LORD our God? So we hope in you, for you are the one who does all these things.

⁷ Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. ⁸ But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.

¹⁴ He causes grass to sprout for the cattle and plants for people to cultivate, to produce food from the land,

²⁸ May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine.

³⁹ And his father Isaac answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be from the fat of the earth and from the dew of the heavens above;

¹³ »Blessed of the LORD is his land. Bless it with the dew from heaven above and with the deep waters lying below.

²⁸ Israel shall dwell in safety alone, the fountain of Jacob in a land of grain and new wine. Yes, His heavens drop down dew.

¹⁷ Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD to send thunder and rain, and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great which you have done in the eyes of the LORD, in asking for a king. ¹⁸ Samuel called upon the LORD that same day, and the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

²¹ Ye mountains of Gilboa, upon you be neither dew nor rain, nor fields whence heave offerings come: For there the shields of the mighty were cast from them, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.

¹ Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, "As the LORD lives, the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years except by my command."

⁹ "He does great things that we cannot understand and miracles that we cannot count. ¹⁰ Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

¹⁹ My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

⁸ "Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb?

⁹ You care for the land and water it; you greatly enrich it. The stream of God is filled with waters. You provide their grain, for so you have established it. ¹⁰ You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

⁸ He covers the sky with clouds. He provides rain for the ground. He makes grass grow on the mountains.

²⁰ By his knowledge the depths were rent, and the clouds will drop dew.

²⁴ They don't say in their heart, 'Let's now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'

¹³ He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.

⁵ I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

²³ Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness, and he has poured down for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before.

⁷ "I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One received rain. The other did not receive rain and it dried up.

⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is given: and the broad waters are frozen.

¹⁶ He gives snow like wool: he scatters the frost like ashes. ¹⁷ He hurls down his hail like pebbles. Who can stand before his cold?

⁹ He is the one who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

⁵ He removed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem and who offered incense to, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

³¹ "Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?

¹⁶ God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

²² "As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease."

⁹⁰ Your faithfulness is throughout all generations. You established the earth, and it stands. ⁹¹ Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

⁶ And he put them in place forever and ever, by a decree he gave that will not pass away.

³⁵ So says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, the laws of the moon, and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, the LORD Almighty is His name. ³⁶ "If these ordinances depart from before me," says the LORD, "then the descendants of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever."

²⁵ This is what the LORD says: 'If I had not established my covenant for day and night and the laws that govern the heavens and earth,

¹⁸ Samuel called upon the LORD that same day, and the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

¹¹ or it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

¹ Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time, the LORD who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

¹⁸ Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.

²³ When Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. The LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. ²⁴ It hailed, and lightning flashed while it hailed. This was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. ²⁵ And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote all that was in the field, both man and beast, and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

²⁹ And Moses said to him, When I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD: the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is the LORD`s.

² And fire went out from before the LORD and consumed them; and they died before the LORD.

¹ Now the people complained about hunger speaking evil in the ears of the LORD, so that when the LORD heard it, his anger flared and the fire of the LORD burned against them and even consumed the outskirts of the camp.

³⁵ And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

¹² Saul said: "Listen here, son of Ahitub!" He responded: "Here I am lord."

¹⁰ Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty." Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.

¹⁴ Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”

³² "He fills his hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

⁸ And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I: send me.

¹ "I permitted myself to be sought by those who did not ask for me. Those who did not seek me found me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said: 'Here I am, here I am.'

⁵ If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed. ⁶ These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

³ and I've filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and all kinds of craftsmanship

¹ Bezalel and Oholiab and all the skilled craftsmen to whom the LORD gave wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work in constructing the sanctuary shall do everything that the LORD has commanded." ² Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman to whom the LORD gave these skills and who was willing to come and do the work.

⁴ He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded?

⁸ But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty, that giveth them understanding.

⁶ Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

²⁶ For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

²⁶ For his God instructs him aright, [and] teaches him.

⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

¹⁷ Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

¹ God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark. He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

⁵ And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

⁴ He determines the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.

¹⁰ The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth - yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

¹⁰ Young lions lack and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD will never lack any good thing.

²¹ The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

¹⁵ The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due time. ¹⁶ You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have risen up from the prey; he stoops, he crouches like a lion; and like a lioness, who can rouse him?

²⁴ Look! the people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain."

⁹ He lies down, he rests as a lion; and as a young lion, who shall rouse him? Those that bless you are blessed, and those that curse you are cursed.

⁸ Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.

²⁷ They all wait for you to give them their food at the proper time. ²⁸ You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

⁹ He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

²⁴ Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap; they have no storehouse or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds!