If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert. If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.

他把水留住，水便枯干；他再发出水来，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就干了；他把水放出，水就淹没大地。

祂拦住水源，便有干旱；祂放开水源，大地被淹没。

他若把水阻截，水就干涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他把水留住，水便枯乾；他再發出水來，水就翻地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

看哪，他使水止住，水就乾了；他把水放出，水就淹沒大地。

祂攔住水源，便有乾旱；祂放開水源，大地被淹沒。

他若把水阻截，水就乾涸，他再把水放出，水就使地翻倒。

他若抑制住水，水便乾了；他再送出水來，水就使地翻覆。

止水則水涸、出之則地淹、

止溪流而水涸、裂泉脈而地淹、

止水則水涸、使水流出則氾濫於地、氾濫於地原文作翻地

If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.

If he holds back the water, everything dries up. If he lets the water loose, it floods the land.

If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

When he withholds water, everything dries up, and when he releases it, it destroys the land.

Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.

If He withholds the waters, they dry up; If He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

When He withholds the waters, everything dries up, and when He releases them, they destroy the land.

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab,“ As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives— the God I serve— there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”

They have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!

At his command the oceans dry up, and the rivers disappear. The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wither.

For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being.

“ If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and if they pray toward this Temple and acknowledge your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them,then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.

When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.The rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.That very day Noah had gone into the boat with his wife and his sons— Shem, Ham, and Japheth— and their wives.With them in the boat were pairs of every kind of animal— domestic and wild, large and small— along with birds of every kind.Two by two they came into the boat, representing every living thing that breathes.A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper, covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth.As the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on the surface.Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,rising more than twenty two feet above the highest peaks.All the living things on earth died— birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.God wiped out every living thing on the earth— people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.And the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days.But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.

Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.

“ Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.

So God said to Noah,“ I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!

At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed.Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.

Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.

“ Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

If you do, the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is giving you.