¹⁴ Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

⁷ Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.

⁴ Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

¹² Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.

²² Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.

²³ Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

¹⁰ Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

¹¹ Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

¹¹ The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

¹² And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

¹³ For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.

²² Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

²⁶ And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.

⁹ You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

¹⁰ You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

¹¹ The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,

¹² Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

¹³ The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.