8 “O YOU heavens, cause a dripping from above;+ and let the cloudy skies themselves trickle with righteousness.+ Let the earth open up, and let it be fruitful with salvation, and let it cause righteousness itself to spring up+ at the same time. I myself, Jehovah, have created it.”*+

16 At [his] voice there is a giving by him of a turmoil of waters in the heavens, and he causes vapors* to ascend from the extremity* of the earth.+ He has made even sluices* for the rain,+ and he brings forth the wind* from his storehouses.

10 “Make YOUR requests of Jehovah for rain+ in the time of the spring rain,+ even of Jehovah who is making the storm clouds,+ and [who] gives a downpour of rain to them,+ to each one vegetation in the field.+