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Deuteronomy 32:2
Deuteronomy 32:2 is verse 2 of Deuteronomy chapter 32, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
King James Version
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
World English Bible
My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
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Deuteronomy 32:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!
4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 23:4is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
Job 29:22After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
Job 29:23They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
Psalms 72:6May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
Isaiah 55:10For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
Isaiah 55:11so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim ? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
1 Corinthians 3:6I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
1 Corinthians 3:7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
1 Corinthians 3:8He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
Hebrews 6:7For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
Micah 5:7Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
Zechariah 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.