Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: