Whether for correction, or for His earth, Or for goodness, He causes it to happen.

或为责罚，或为润地，或为施行慈爱。

或为责罚，或为他的地，或为慈爱，都是他所行的。

或为责罚，或为他的地，或为慈爱，都是他所行的。

或为惩罚大地，或为彰显慈爱。

他使电光来临，是为施行责罚，或为滋润大地，或为赐予慈爱。

或為責罰，或為潤地，或為施行慈愛。

或為責罰，或為他的地，或為慈愛，都是他所行的。

或為責罰，或為他的地，或為慈愛，都是他所行的。

或為懲罰大地，或為彰顯慈愛。

他使電光來臨，是為施行責罰，或為滋潤大地，或為賜予慈愛。

或是為作刑杖，以罰他的地，或是為顯堅愛、他才使電光閃耀着。

或以之潤土壤、或以為懲、或以為惠、

或降以災、或施以恩、潤澤土壤。

或以降災於地、或以施恩於人、

He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.

He tells the clouds to punish people. Or he brings them to water his earth and show his love.

Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.

He makes these things happen either to punish people or to show his unfailing love.

He causes this to happen for punishment, for his land, or for his faithful love.

He causes it to come, Whether for correction, Or for His land, Or for mercy.

Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.

He causes this to happen for punishment, for His land, or for His faithful love.

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Meanwhile the sky became dark with clouds and wind came up, and there was a heavy shower. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.

To bring rain on a land without people, On a desert without a person in it,To satisfy the waste and desolate land, And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.Then all the people said to Samuel,“ Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, so that we do not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, by asking for ourselves a king.”

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

For by them He judges peoples; He gives food in abundance.

Who can count the clouds by wisdom, And pour out the water jars of the heavens,When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until it rained on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the wild animals by night.

So shout for joy, you sons of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the early rain for your vindication. And He has brought down for you the rain, The early and latter rain as before.

Then they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of his father Kish; So they did everything that the king commanded, and after that God responded to prayer for the land.

Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.So now, send word, bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every person and animal that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.” ’ ”Everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring his servants and his livestock into the houses;but everyone who did not pay regard to the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.Now the Lord said to Moses,“ Reach out with your hand toward the sky, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, on every person and animal, and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”So Moses reached out with his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.So there was hail, and fire flashing intermittently in the midst of the hail, which was very heavy, such as had not occurred in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.The hail struck everything that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, from people to animals; the hail also struck every plant of the field, and shattered every tree of the field.

For to the snow He says,‘ Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain,‘ Be strong.’