Deuteronomy 32:2 “Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gen…”

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

American Standard Version

My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.

Geneva Bible 1599

My doctrine shall drop as the raine, and my speach shall stil as the dew, as the showre vpon the herbes, and as the great raine vpon the grasse.

Darby Translation

My doctrine shall drop as rain, My speech flow down as dew, As small rain upon the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

Young's Literal Translation

Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

Bible in Basic English

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

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Cross references

“drop”

Psalm 72:6 Hosea 14:5 2 Samuel 23:4 Hosea 6:4 1 Corinthians 3:6–8 Hebrews 6:7

Psalm 72:6 · BSB

May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

Hosea 14:5 · BSB

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

2 Samuel 23:4 · BSB

is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

Hosea 6:4 · BSB

What 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.

1 Corinthians 3:6–8 · BSB

I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.

Hebrews 6:7 · BSB

For 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.

“as the showers”

Micah 5:7 Zechariah 10:1

Micah 5:7 · BSB

Then 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 10:1 · BSB

Ask 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

3For I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

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