Other translations
American Standard Version
And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Darby Bible Translation
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for a latter shower.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
God's Word
They were as eager to hear me as they were for rain. They opened their mouths wide as if waiting for a spring shower.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
They waited for me as for the rain and opened their mouths as for spring showers.
International Standard Version
They waited for me as one waits for rain, as one opens his mouth to drink in a spring rain shower.
NET Bible
They waited for me as people wait for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rains.
New American Standard Bible
"They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouth as for the spring rain.
New International Version
They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.
New Living Translation
They longed for me to speak as people long for rain. They drank my words like a refreshing spring rain.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
The World English Bible
They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.
EasyEnglish Bible
They would wait for me to speak to them, like people who wait for rain to fall. My words would make them happy, like rain in spring that makes a farmer happy.
Young‘s Literal Translation
And they wait as [for] rain for me, And their mouth they have opened wide [As] for the latter rain.
New Life Version
They waited for me as for rain. And they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
The Voice Bible
Indeed, they waited for me as one waits for a good rain, and they opened their mouths as if to catch spring showers on their tongues.
Living Bible
They longed for me to speak as those in drought-time long for rain. They waited eagerly with open mouths.
New Catholic Bible
They waited for me as for the rain, with open mouths as though to drink in a spring shower.
Legacy Standard Bible
They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouth as for the late rain.
Jubilee Bible 2000
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Christian Standard Bible
They waited for me as for the rain and opened their mouths as for spring showers.
Amplified Bible © 1954
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths wide as for the spring rain.
New Century Version
They waited for me as they would for rain and drank in my words like spring rain.
The Message
“Men and women listened when I spoke, hung expectantly on my every word. After I spoke, they’d be quiet, taking it all in. They welcomed my counsel like spring rain, drinking it all in. When I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; their faces lit up, their troubles took wing! I was their leader, establishing the mood and setting the pace by which they lived. Where I led, they followed.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
They waited for me the way people wait for rain. They opened their mouths the way people wait for spring showers.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Good News Translation®
everyone welcomed them just as farmers welcome rain in spring.
Wycliffe Bible
They abided me as (for the) rain; and they opened their mouth as to the soft rain coming late. (They waited for my words like for they waited for the rain; and they opened their mouths to drink them in, like the soft rain that cometh late.)
Contemporary English Version
My words were eagerly accepted like the showers of spring,
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Common English Bible © 2011
they waited for me as for rain, opened their mouth as for spring rain.
Amplified Bible © 2015
“They waited for me [and for my words] as for the rain, And they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
English Standard Version Anglicised
They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
They waited for me as for the rain; they drank in my words like the spring rains.
New American Standard Bible
They waited for me as for the rain, And opened their mouths as for the late rain.
The Expanded Bible
They waited for me as they would for rain and ·drank in my words like [L opened their mouth for] spring rain.
Tree of Life Version
They waited for me as for the rain, and opened their mouths as for spring rain.
Revised Standard Version
They waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
New International Reader's Version
They waited for me just as they would wait for rain showers. They drank my words just as they would drink the spring rain.
BRG Bible
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Complete Jewish Bible
They waited for me as if for rain, as if for spring rain, with their mouths open wide.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
They waited for me as for the rain; they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
And they waited for me as for the matar; and they opened their mouth wide as for the malkosh (spring, late rain).
Names of God Bible
They were as eager to hear me as they were for rain. They opened their mouths wide as if waiting for a spring shower.
Modern English Version
They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
Easy-to-Read Version
They waited for my words as they would for rain. They drank them in like rain in the springtime.
International Children’s Bible
They waited for me as they would for rain. They drank in my words as if they were spring rain.
Lexham English Bible
And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
New International Version - UK
They waited for me as for showers and drank in my words as the spring rain.