⁹ I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,^(A)

³⁴ The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass through it.

More Than Conquerors

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things?^(A) If God is for us,^(B) who can be against us?^(C)

¹² “The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit,^(A) the ground will produce its crops,^(B) and the heavens will drop their dew.^(C) I will give all these things as an inheritance^(D) to the remnant of this people.^(E)

¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe^(A) into the storehouse,^(B) that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates^(C) of heaven and pour out^(D) so much blessing^(E) that there will not be room enough to store it.^{(F) 11} I will prevent pests from devouring^(G) your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,^(H)” says the Lord Almighty.

¹⁹ Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate^(A) and the olive tree have not borne fruit.^(B)

“‘From this day on I will bless^(C) you.’”