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11 But the land that you are crossing over to occupy is a land of hills and valleys watered by rain from the sky,(A)

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Ground that drinks up the rain falling on it repeatedly and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.(A)

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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills,(A) a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper.

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12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow;
    the hills gird themselves with joy;(A)
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks;
    the valleys deck themselves with grain;
    they shout and sing together for joy.(B)

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28 May God give you of the dew of heaven
    and of the fatness of the earth
    and plenty of grain and wine.(A)

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Judgment on Corrupt Rulers, Priests, and Prophets

28 Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim
    and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
    at the head of the fertile valley,
    those overcome with wine!(A)

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10 You make springs gush forth in the valleys;
    they flow between the hills,(A)
11 giving drink to every wild animal;
    the wild asses quench their thirst.(B)
12 By the streams[a] the birds of the air have their habitation;
    they sing among the branches.(C)
13 From your lofty abode you water the mountains;
    the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 104.12 Heb By them

I brought you into a plentiful land
    to eat its fruits and its good things.
But when you entered you defiled my land
    and made my heritage an abomination.(A)

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