Ask ye of the Lord rain – “Ask and ye shall receive,” our Lord says. Zechariah had promised in God’s name blessings tempor…

Bright clouds. —Better, lightnings, which precede the longed-for rain. (Psalms 135:7.)

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The atheistic philosopher of the present day laughs at such a verse as this, and sneeringly asks, "What possible connection can there be between me…

Zechariah, after having shown that God would be generous toward the Jews, so that nothing necessary to make life happy and blessed would be lacking…

Ask you of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain
There was the former and the latter rain, of which see ([Ref…

Spiritual blessings had been promised under figurative allusions to earthly plenty. Seasonable rain is a great mercy, which we may ask of God when …