Have you ever visited the storerooms, where I keep the snow and the hail?

He spreads snow like a blanket and scatters frost like dust.

Then he gives a command, and the ice melts; he sends the wind, and the water flows.

lightning and hail, snow and clouds, strong winds that obey his command.

It is God who takes water from the earth and turns it into drops of rain.

Seven days later the flood came.

and rain fell on the earth for forty days and nights.

Within the three days, on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the men living in the territory of Judah and Benjamin came to Jerusalem and assembled in the Temple square. It was raining hard, and because of the weather and the importance of the meeting everyone was trembling.

But they added, "The crowd is too big, and it's raining hard. We can't stand here in the open like this. This isn't something that can be done in one or two days, because so many of us are involved in this sin.

Someone in authority who oppresses poor people is like a driving rain that destroys the crops.

Tell the prophets that their wall is going to fall down. I will send a pouring rain. Hailstones will fall on it, and a strong wind will blow against it.

Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "In my anger I will send a strong wind, pouring rain, and hailstones to destroy the wall.

The LORD builds his home in the heavens, and over the earth he puts the dome of the sky. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. His name is the LORD!

The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, and the wind blew hard against that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on rock.

The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, the wind blew hard against that house, and it fell. And what a terrible fall that was!"