Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
Or can the skies alone give showers?
Are You not the Lord our God?
We therefore put our hope in You,
for You have done all these things.
New American Standard Bible
Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we
For You are the one who has done all these things.
King James Version
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.
International Standard Version
Can any of the worthless gods of the nations make it rain? Can the heavens themselves bring forth showers? Aren't you the one who does this, LORD our God? So we hope in you, for you are the one who does all these things.
A Conservative Version
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.
American Standard Version
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
Amplified
Are there any among the idols of the nations who can send rain?
Or can the heavens [of their own will] give showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait and hope [confidently] in You,
For You are the one who has made all these things [the heavens and the rain].
Bible in Basic English
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Darby Translation
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE, Jehovah, our God? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things.
Julia Smith Translation
Is there among the vanities of the nations those causing ruin? and if the heavens will give showers? Art not thou he, Jehovah our God? And we will wait for thee: for thou didst make all these.
King James 2000
Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? are not you he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon you: for you have made all these things.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Are there [any] among the idols of the nation [who] cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? [Is] it not you, Yahweh our God? Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these [things].
Modern King James verseion
Are there any among the vanities of the nations who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Are there any among the gods of the Gentiles, that send rain or give the showers of heaven? Dost not thou it, O LORD our God, in whom we trust? Yea LORD, thou dost all these things."
NET Bible
Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this."
New Heart English Bible
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things."
The Emphasized Bible
Are there, among the vanities of the nations senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
Youngs Literal Translation
Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!
Themes
Idolatry » Objects of, described as » Vanities of the gentiles
intercession » Additional instances of » Jeremiah, for israel
Rain » Impotence of idols exhibited in not being able to give
Topics
Interlinear
Nathan
'elohiym
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 14:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Nation Hopes In Yahweh
21
Don’t disdain Your glorious throne.
Remember Your covenant
do not break it.
Or can the skies alone give showers?
Are You not the Lord our God?
We therefore put our hope in You,
for You have done all these things.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:21
with their so-called gods;
they have enraged Me with their worthless idols.
So I will provoke their jealousy
with an inferior people;
I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
Isaiah 30:23
Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah
Psalm 135:7
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Isaiah 41:29
their works are nonexistent;
their images are wind and emptiness.
Jeremiah 5:24
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain,
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
Jeremiah 10:15
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
Zechariah 10:1-2
in the season of spring rain.
The Lord makes the rain clouds,
and He will give them showers of rain
and crops in the field for everyone.
Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord will open for you His abundant storehouse, the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands.
1 Kings 8:36
and forgive the sin of Your servants
and Your people Israel,
so that You may teach them the good way
they should walk in.
May You send rain on Your land
that You gave Your people for an inheritance.
1 Kings 17:14
for this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the surface of the land.”
1 Kings 18:1
After a long time, the word of the Lord
1 Kings 18:39-45
When all the people saw it, they fell facedown
Job 5:10
and sends water to the fields.
Job 38:26-28
on a desert with no human life,
Psalm 25:3
will be disgraced;
those who act treacherously without cause
will be disgraced.
Psalm 25:21
watch over me,
for I wait for You.
Psalm 27:14
be strong
Wait for the Lord.
Psalm 74:1-2
A Maskil of Asaph.
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psalm 130:5
and put my hope in His word.
Psalm 147:8
prepares rain for the earth,
and causes grass to grow on the hills.
Isaiah 30:18
and is rising up to show you compassion,
for the Lord is a just God.
All who wait patiently for Him are happy.
Isaiah 44:12-20
shapes the idol with hammers,
and works it with his strong arm.
Also he grows hungry and his strength fails;
he doesn’t drink water and is faint.
Jeremiah 10:13
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds to rise
from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Jeremiah 16:19
my refuge in a time of distress,
the nations will come to You
from the ends of the earth, and they will say,
“Our fathers inherited only lies,
worthless idols
Jeremiah 51:16
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds
to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Lamentations 3:25-26
ט Tet
to the person who seeks Him.
Joel 2:23
in the Lord your God,
because He gives you the autumn rain
for your vindication.
He sends showers for you,
both autumn and spring rain
Amos 4:7
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.
Micah 7:7
I will wait for the God of my salvation.
My God will hear me.
Habakkuk 3:17-19
and there is no fruit on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
Matthew 5:45
Acts 14:15-17
“Men! Why are you doing these things? We are men also, with the same nature as you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you should turn from these worthless things