*1.* “Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.” *2* “Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.” *3* “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater.” *4* “Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth. May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!”