It is He who covers the heavens with clouds, Who provides rain for the earth, Who makes grass sprout on the mountains.
Parallel translations
- WEB who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
- KJV Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
- BSB who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- NKJV Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
- NLT He covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the grass grow in mountain pastures.
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Quick answer
God covers the sky with clouds, sends rain, and makes grass grow. He governs the weather and sustains the earth's life.
Overview
God's providence is seen in the cycle of clouds, rain, and growing grass that sustains creation. Nothing in nature operates apart from His ordering hand. This care for the earth reflects the Father who provides for all His creatures (Matthew 6:30).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Job 5:10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- Ps 65:9–13You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
- Gen 9:14When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,
- Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
- Acts 14:17Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
- Job 26:8–9He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
- Jas 5:17–18Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
- Job 36:27–33For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
- Ps 104:13–14He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
- Job 38:24–27By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
- Ps 135:1Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh’s name! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,
- Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
- Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
- Amos 5:7–8You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
- Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
- 1 Kgs 18:44–45On 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.’”
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