“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.”
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things. Jeremiah's communal lament reaches its theological climax: after confessing Israel's sin and acknowledging divine judgment, the community returns to the most basic confession of faith — that the LORD alone controls the rain and the harvest. The rhetorical questions expose the impotence of the Baals, whose very claim to fame was fertility and rainfall. The phrase 'we set our hope on you' is the pivot from accusation and lament to renewed covenant trust, even amid unanswered prayer.
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