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.

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

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.

¹⁸ What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

¹⁹ O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

²⁰ The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

³⁰ And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.

³⁵ And they will say, This land which was waste has become like the garden of Eden; and the towns which were unpeopled and wasted and pulled down are walled and peopled.

⁵ I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

⁶ I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

⁷ His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

¹⁴ And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.

¹⁵ And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

¹¹ And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

¹⁶ How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

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

¹² And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

⁷ So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

⁸ But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

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.

²⁷ And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.

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;

⁵ And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

⁶ The earth has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.

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;

²⁷ All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

²⁸ They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

²⁹ If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

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

³⁶ And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town;

³⁷ And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

³⁸ He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

¹⁵ The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time.

¹⁶ By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

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.

²³ And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

²⁴ And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

³ For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

¹² No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.