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

²¹ Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.

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.

²⁴ And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.

²⁵ I will give back to you the years which were food for the locust, the plant-worm, the field-fly, and the worm, my great army which I sent among you.

²⁶ You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:

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.

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.

¹⁸ Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.

³ The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

⁴ He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

⁸ The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

¹² For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

²⁸ Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

⁷ You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands:

⁸ You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now.

⁹ But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,

¹⁴ May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.