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.

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

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 grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. (niv)

to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert,to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass? (niv)

Then Samuel called on the Lord, and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain. So all the people stood in awe of the Lord and of Samuel.The people all said to Samuel,“ Pray to the Lord your God for your servants so that we will not die, for we have added to all our other sins the evil of asking for a king.” (niv)

Within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. And on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the square before the house of God, greatly distressed by the occasion and because of the rain. (niv)

This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance. (niv)

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavenswhen the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? (niv)

Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night. (niv)

Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before. (niv)

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land. (niv)

Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die.’”Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside.But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt— on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.”When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields— both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. (niv)

He says to the snow,‘ Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower,‘ Be a mighty downpour.’ (niv)