⁶ May the king’s rule be refreshing like spring rain on freshly cut grass,
    like the showers that water the earth.

² Let my teaching fall on you like rain;
    let my speech settle like dew.
Let my words fall like rain on tender grass,
    like gentle showers on young plants.

⁴ is like the light of morning at sunrise,
    like a morning without clouds,
like the gleaming of the sun
    on new grass after rain.’

“The mighty man has been destroyed.
    Yes, your insolence^[a] is ended.
⁵ For the Lord has crushed your wicked power
    and broken your evil rule.

⁵ I will be to Israel
    like a refreshing dew from heaven.
Israel will blossom like the lily;
    it will send roots deep into the soil
    like the cedars in Lebanon.
⁶ Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees,
    as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.
⁷ My people will again live under my shade.
    They will flourish like grain and blossom like grapevines.
    They will be as fragrant as the wines of Lebanon.

⁶ I will make it a wild place
    where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,
    a place overgrown with briers and thorns.
I will command the clouds
    to drop no rain on it.

¹² The king’s anger is like a lion’s roar,
    but his favor is like dew on the grass.

¹⁵ When the king smiles, there is life;
    his favor refreshes like a spring rain.