²⁶ Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

³⁵ He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

¹⁰ You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

¹¹ They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

¹² The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

¹³ He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

¹⁴ He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

⁸ By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

⁹ He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

¹ The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

² It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.

²⁰ The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

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.

⁷ For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

⁸ But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

¹⁸ I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

¹⁹ I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together: