14 (A)he[a] will give the rain for your land in its season, (B)the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 11:14 Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew I; also verse 15

Patience in Suffering

Be patient, therefore, brothers,[a] until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives (A)the early and the late rains.

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  1. James 5:7 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 9, 10, 12, 19

then (A)I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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26 And I will make them and the places all around my hill (A)a blessing, and (B)I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be (C)showers of blessing.

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12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, (A)to give the rain to your land in its season and (B)to bless all the work of your hands. And (C)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

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22 Fear not, (A)you beasts of the field,
    for (B)the pastures of the wilderness are green;
(C)the tree bears its fruit;
    the fig tree and (D)vine give their full yield.

23 (E)“Be glad, O children of Zion,
    and (F)rejoice in the Lord your God,
for he has given (G)the early rain for your vindication;
    he has poured down for you abundant rain,
    (H)the early and (I)the latter rain, as before.

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You visit the earth and (A)water it;[a]
    you greatly enrich it;
(B)the river of God is full of water;
    (C)you provide their grain,
    for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
    settling its ridges,
softening it with (D)showers,
    and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
    your wagon tracks (E)overflow with abundance.
12 (F)The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
    the hills (G)gird themselves with joy,
13 (H)the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
    the valleys deck themselves with grain,
    they (I)shout and sing together for joy.

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  1. Psalm 65:9 Or and make it overflow

10 he gives (A)rain on the earth
    and sends waters on the fields;
11 he (B)sets on high those who are lowly,
    and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

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22 Are there any among (A)the false gods of the nations (B)that can bring rain?
    Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
    We set our hope on you,
    (C)for you do all these things.

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11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
    the clouds scatter his lightning.
12 They (A)turn around and around by his (B)guidance,
    (C)to accomplish all that he commands them
    on the face of (D)the habitable world.
13 Whether for (E)correction or for his (F)land
    or for (G)love, he causes it to happen.

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