³ Therefore the showers have been withheld,^(A)
    and no spring rains^(B) have fallen.
Yet you have the brazen^(C) look of a prostitute;
    you refuse to blush with shame.^(D)

⁴ The ground is cracked
    because there is no rain in the land;^(A)
the farmers are dismayed
    and cover their heads.

²² Do any of the worthless idols^(A) of the nations bring rain?^(B)
    Do the skies themselves send down showers?
No, it is you, Lord our God.
    Therefore our hope is in you,
    for you are the one who does all this.^(C)

²⁴ They do not say to themselves,
    ‘Let us fear^(A) the Lord our God,
who gives autumn and spring rains^(B) in season,
    who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’^(C)

⁶ I will make it a wasteland,^(A)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns^(B) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain^(C) on it.”

⁷ “I also withheld^(A) rain from you
    when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
    but withheld it from another.^(B)
One field had rain;
    another had none and dried up.