They waited for me just as they would wait for rain showers. They drank my words just as they would drink the spring rain.When I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it. The light of my face lifted their spirits.
Let’s recognize him as the Lord. Let’s keep trying to know him. You can be sure the sun will rise. And you can be just as sure the Lord will appear. He will come to renew us like the winter rains. He will be like the spring rains that water the earth.”
People of Judah, ask the Lord to send rain in the spring. He is the one who sends the thunderstorms. He sends down showers of rain on all people. He gives everyone the plants in the fields.