³⁷ behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast spoken.

² 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.

⁶ He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

¹⁹ He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.

²⁰ He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.

³ And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

⁴ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.

⁵ I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying, Go not into `any' way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans:

⁶ but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²⁴ But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.