18. Upon Occasion Of Excessive Rain (continued)
Let the rain you send be in mercy to our land, and not for correction; not a sweeping rain, which leaves no food. Job 37:13.
You have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more return to cover the earth; Let fair weather therefore come out of the north, for with you is terrible majesty. Isaiah 54:9. Job 37:22.
19. UPON OCCASION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES Take sickness away from the midst of us and deliver us from the noisomepestilence. Exodus 23:25. Psalm 91:3.
Appoint the destroying angel to put up his sword into the sheath, and to stay his hand. 2 Samuel 24:16.
20. UPON OCCASION OF FIRE You call to contend by fire, we bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled: O Lord God, cease, we beseech you, and let the fire be quenched, as that kindled in Israel was at the prayer of Moses.
Amos 7:4, Leviticus 10:6. Amos 7:5. Numbers 11:2.
21. UPON OCCASION OF GREAT STORMS Lord, you have the winds in your hands, and bring them out of your treasures, even stormy winds fulfil your word: O preserve us and our habitations, that we be not buried in the ruins of them, as Job's children were. Proverbs 30:4. Psalm 135:7. Psalm 148-8. Job