You water the ridges thereof abundantly: you settle the furrows thereof: you make it soft with showers: you bless the springing thereof.
He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.
Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
Your congregation has dwelled therein: you, O God, have prepared of your goodness for the poor.
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain on the tender herb, and as the showers on the grass: