May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
Deuteronomy 11:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) but the land which you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the land which you enter to possess is a land of hills and valleys which drinks water of the rain of the heavens, American Standard Version (1901) but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, Common English Bible No, the land you are entering to possess is a land of hills and valleys, where your drinking water will be rain from heaven. Catholic Public Domain Version Rather, it has mountainous regions and plains, which lay waiting for rain from heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But it is a land of hills and plains, expecting rain from heaven. |
May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;
Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations round about;
For the land which you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your feet, like a garden of vegetables;
For land which has drunk the rain that often falls upon it, and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.