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Zechariah 8:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Instead, I will make sure that your crops are planted in peace and your vineyards are fruitful, that your fields are fertile and the dew falls from the sky.

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Isaac planted grain and had a good harvest that same year. The LORD blessed him,

God will bless you, my son, with dew from heaven and with fertile fields, rich with grain and grapes.

Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead. One day he went to King Ahab and said, “I'm a servant of the living LORD, the God of Israel. And I swear in his name that it won't rain until I say so. There won't even be any dew on the ground.”

Let peace and justice rule every mountain and hill.

Our LORD, you will bless us; our land will produce wonderful crops.

An angry king roars like a lion, but when a king is pleased, it's like dew on the crops.

The Lord will send rain to water the seeds you have planted—your fields will produce more crops than you need, and your cattle will graze in open pastures.

They were terribly insulted and horribly ill-treated; now they will be greatly blessed and joyful for ever.

My people will come to Mount Zion and celebrate; their faces will glow because of my blessings. I'll give them grain, grapes, and olive oil, as well as sheep and cattle. Israel will be prosperous and grow like a garden with plenty of water.

Foreign nations will never again rob them, and wild animals will no longer kill and eat them. They will have nothing to fear.

I will bring my people Israel home, and they will live on you mountains, because you belong to them, and your fertile slopes will never again let them starve.

Your trees will be filled with fruit, and crops will grow in your fields, so that you will never again feel ashamed for not having enough food.

I will take care of you by ploughing your soil and planting crops on your fertile slopes.

And so, all of you will vanish like the mist or the dew of early morning, or husks of grain in the wind or smoke from a chimney.

I will be like the dew— then you will blossom like lilies and have roots like a tree.

In answer to their prayers he said, “I will give you enough grain, wine, and olive oil to satisfy your needs. No longer will I let you be insulted by the nations.

and wild animals to stop being afraid. Grasslands are green again; fruit trees and fig trees are loaded with fruit. Grapevines are covered with grapes.

The people of Israel who survive will live right and refuse to tell lies. They will eat and rest with nothing to fear.

That's also why the dew doesn't fall and your harvest fails.

Today you have completed the foundation for my temple, so listen to what your future will be like.

Although you have not yet harvested any grain, grapes, figs, pomegranates, or olives, I will richly bless you in the days ahead.

This may seem impossible for my people who are left, but it isn't impossible for me, the LORD All-Powerful.

I will also stop locusts from destroying your crops and keeping your vineyards from producing.

But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.

So stop boasting about what anyone has done. Paul and Apollos and Peter all belong to you. In fact, everything is yours, including the world, life, death, the present, and the future. Everything belongs to you,

Israel, I will teach you. My words will be like gentle rain on tender young plants, or like dew on the grass.

Descendants of Joseph, the LORD will bless you with precious water from deep wells and with dew from the sky.

Israel, you will live in safety; your enemies will be gone. The dew will fall from the sky, and you will have plenty of grain and wine.

When peacemakers plant seeds of peace, they will harvest justice.




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