40 Important Bible Verses About Rain

Scholars simply defined rain as the falling of water droplets from the sky. While this definition is valid to scholars, teachers and to humans in general, I want us to understand that in Christianity, rain goes beyond the pouring down of water droplets from the sky. Christians view rainfalls spiritually. Rain is often considered as showers of blessings from God. In the Bible rain is mostly used to represent God’s blessings and mercy. Rain is a proof of God’s kindness and his capability to always provide food and nourishment for us. When it rains, the plants are watered, they grow and bloom to provide us with seeds which serves as food. Let us proceed to see the different symbolical meaning of rain in the scripture;

Just as rain can physically wash off dirt and cleans a city, or an environment. In Christianity, it is considered as a symbol of purification and sanctification. When it rains, some Christians see it as a redeeming event that has come to cleans and purify their souls from every negativity. Rain also signifies rebirth and growth, just as rain gives life to plants, so it is depicted in spiritual realm as showers that induces rebirth and growth in our spiritual life and work with God. Heavy rainfalls and storms can also symbolize temptations, trails and hard times in life. At these times, we should remember that it does not rain always which means that hard time and trails don’t last forever and that they are also part of our Christian journey. Join us in this blog as we study some important Bible verses that teaches us about the spiritual meaning of rain.

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What Does The Bible Say About Rain?

The Bible often uses rain as a token of God’s provision, as seen in the book of Deuteronomy 11:14 “I will give you rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil”. Here the Bible describes rainfall as a gift of provision from God to mankind. Stating clearly that the rain will enable our plants to grow and produce seeds so that we may gather grains and have food for our stomach. Also, let us see the book of Zechariah 10:1 “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”. This scripture resonates with the former, they both acknowledge rainfall on earth as God’s act of graciousness to us.

Furthermore, rain is also regarded as a sign of God’s judgement or wrath as seen in the book of Genesis 6:17 “And I myself I am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy from under the heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life, everything that is on the earth shall die”. This verses explains that God used rainfall to destroy everything on earth as a result of his anger towards his creatures that rebelled against him.

Generally, the Bible describes rain as a powerful and an important part of God’s creations that have both negative and positive meanings.

Bible Verses About Rain

1. I will give you rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil. – Deuteronomy 11:14
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. – Zechariah 10:1
3. He gives rain on the earth and sends water on the fields. – Job 5:10
4. So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. – Matthew 5:45
5. 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. – Isaiah 55:10
6. Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before. – Joel 2:23
7. Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. – James 5:7-8
8. He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills. – Psalm 147:8
9. They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest. – Jeremiah 5:24
10. When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance. – 1 Kings 8:35-36
11. 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. – Leviticus 26:4
12. 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. – Hosea 6:3
13. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. – Genesis 2:5
14. I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither. – Amos 4:7
15. Rain in abundance, O God, you showered abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished. – Psalm 68:9
16. Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness. – Acts 14:17
17. Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things. – Jeremiah 14:22
18. Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, ‘As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word. – 1 Kings 17:1
19. You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it. – Psalm 65:9
20. And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing. – Ezekiel 34:26
21. And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures. – Isaiah 30:23
22. In the light of a king’s face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain. – Proverbs 16:15
23. The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. – Deuteronomy 28:12
24. He also said to the crowds, ‘When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, A shower is coming. And so it happens. – Luke 12:54
25. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. – 2 Chronicles 7:13-14
26. For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. – Hebrews 6:7
27. They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. – Revelation 11:6
28. And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. – Zechariah 14:17
29.  He gives rain on the earth And sends water on the fields. – Job 5:10
30.  For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong. – Job 37:6
31.  The earth quaked; The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God; Sinai itself quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel. – Psalm 68:8
32.  He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings for the rain, Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries. – Psalm 135:7
33.  For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. – Isaiah 55:10-11
34.  The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall. – Matthew 7:27
35.  And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. – Matthew 7:25
36.  Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As the droplets on the fresh grass And as the showers on the herb. – Deuteronomy 32:2
37.  They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouth as for the spring rain. – Job 29:23
38.  May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, Like showers that water the earth. – Psalm 72:6
39.  Like clouds and wind without rain Is a man who boasts of his gifts falsely. – Proverbs 25:14