10 (A)“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven
    and do not return there but water the earth,
making it bring forth and sprout,
    (B)giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

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As it is written,

(A)“He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor;
    his righteousness endures forever.”

10 He who supplies (B)seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and (C)increase the harvest of your righteousness. 11 (D)You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which (E)through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

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23 (A)And he will give (B)rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. (C)In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,

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May (A)my teaching drop as the rain,
    my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
    and (B)like showers upon the herb.

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12 (A)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
    reap steadfast love;
    (B)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
    that he may come and (C)rain righteousness upon you.

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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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11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
    and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,
so the Lord God will cause (A)righteousness and praise
    to sprout up before all the nations.

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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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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 65:9 Or and make it overflow

They have the power (A)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and (B)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

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I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and (A)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(B)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

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May he be like (A)rain that falls on (B)the mown grass,
    like (C)showers that water the earth!
In his days may (D)the righteous flourish,
    and (E)peace abound, till the moon be no more!

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Then David (A)inquired of the Lord again. And the Lord answered him, “Arise, go down to Keilah, (B)for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

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