⁹ For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:

¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)

⁸ You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.

³⁴ And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

²¹ And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

²² And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;

²³ And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.

¹⁸ Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

¹⁹ Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

¹² For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

¹⁰ Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.

¹¹ And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?