Rain is a beautiful symbol in the Bible, representing God’s provision and blessings. In this collection, we explore 65 Bible verses about rain, revealing their spiritual significance. These verses illustrate God’s care and promise to nourish our lives. Join us in discovering the divine messages carried by every drop.

Rain as a Blessing

• Deuteronomy 28:12 – “The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.”
• Leviticus 26:4 – “I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.”
• Zechariah 10:1 – “Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone.”
• James 5:7 – “Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.”
• Isaiah 30:23 – “He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.”

Rain as a Sign of God’s Faithfulness

• Joel 2:23 – “Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.”
• Isaiah 55:10 – “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater.”
• Psalm 147:8 – “He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.”
• Acts 14:17 – “Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.”
• Matthew 5:45 – “That you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”
• Genesis 9:14-15 – “Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.”
• Job 37:6 – “He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’”

Rain as a Symbol of Renewal

• Hosea 10:12 – “Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.”
• Psalm 65:9-10 – “You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.”
• Jeremiah 10:13 – “When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.”
• Isaiah 5:6 – “I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
• 2 Samuel 23:4 – “He dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.”
• Zechariah 14:17 – “If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain.”

Rain and Divine Judgment

• Revelation 11:6 – “These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.”
• 2 Chronicles 6:26-27 – “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.”
• 2 Chronicles 7:13 – “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people.”
• Job 20:23 – “When he has filled his belly, God will vent his burning anger against him and rain down his blows on him.”
• Luke 4:25 – “I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.”
• Hebrews 6:7-8 – “Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.”
• Jeremiah 3:3 – “Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.”

Rain and God’s Provision

• Psalm 104:13-14 – “He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work. He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate—bringing forth food from the earth.”
• Job 36:27-28 – “He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.”
• Zechariah 8:12 – “‘The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew. I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people.'”

Rain in Spiritual Metaphors

• Isaiah 45:8 – “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down. Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness flourish with it; I, the LORD, have created it.”
• Psalm 84:6 – “As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools.”
• Job 29:23 – “They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.”
• Proverbs 16:15 – “When a king’s face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.”

Promises of Rain

• Jeremiah 14:22 – “Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, O LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.”
• Zachariah 10:1 – “Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone.”
• James 5:18 – “Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.”
• 1 Kings 18:1 – “After a long time, in the third year, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: ‘Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.'”
• Deuteronomy 11:14 – “I will give you the 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.”
• Ezekiel 36:26 – “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

Rain and Restoration

• Isaiah 44:3 – “For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.”
• Psalm 68:9 – “You gave abundant showers, O God; you refreshed your weary inheritance.”
• Ezekiel 34:26 – “I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; I will send down showers in season; there will be showers of blessing.”
• Jeremiah 31:12 – “They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will rejoice in the bounty of the LORD—the grain, the new wine and the oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will sorrow no more.”
• Psalm 85:12 – “The LORD will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.”

Rain as a Reflection of God’s Sovereignty

• Psalm 135:7 – “He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.”
• Psalm 77:17 – “The clouds poured out water; the skies resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth.”
• Job 28:26 – “When he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,”
• Job 38:25-28 – “Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?”

Prayers for Rain

• 1 Kings 8:35-36 – “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and when they pray toward this place and confess your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them the right way to live, and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.”
• Zachariah 10:1 – “Ask the LORD for rain in the springtime; it is the LORD who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone.”
• 1 Kings 18:42-45 – “So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees. ‘Go and look toward the sea,’ he told his servant. And he went up and looked. ‘There is nothing there,’ he said. Seven times Elijah said, ‘Go back.’ The seventh time the servant reported, ‘A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.’ So Elijah said, ‘Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’'”

Rain in Prophecy

• Joel 2:23 – “Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.”
• Hosea 6:3 – “Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
• Amos 4:7-8 – “I also withheld rain from you when the harvest was still three months away. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. One field had rain; another had none and dried up.”
• Ezekiel 38:22 – “I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.”
• 1 Kings 18:41 – “And Elijah said to Ahab, ‘Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.'”
• Jeremiah 5:24 – “They do not say to themselves, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives autumn and spring rains in season, who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’”

God’s Control Over Rain

• 1 Kings 17:1 – “Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, ‘As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.'”
• Job 5:10 – “He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside.”
• James 5:17-18 – “Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.”
• 2 Samuel 21:1 – “During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, ‘It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.'”

Rain as a Symbol of God’s Mercy

• Hosea 14:5 – “I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily. Like a cedar of Lebanon, he will send down his roots.”
• Psalm 72:6 – “May he be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth.”
• Deuteronomy 32:2 – “Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.”
• Job 38:26-27 – “to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?”
• Job 38:28 – “Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?”

Conclusion

These 65 Bible verses about rain reveal God’s care and blessings. Let these verses remind you of His love and faithfulness. May you always find comfort and renewal in His abundant blessings!