⁶ He says to the snow,^(A) ‘Fall on the earth,’
    and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’^(B)

¹¹ He loads the clouds with moisture;^(A)
    he scatters his lightning^(B) through them.^(C)
12 At his direction they swirl around
    over the face of the whole earth
    to do whatever he commands them.^(D)

²⁶ to water^(A) a land where no one lives,
    an uninhabited desert,^(B)
27 to satisfy a desolate wasteland
    and make it sprout with grass?^(C)
28 Does the rain have a father?^(D)
    Who fathers the drops of dew?