For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
God said, *Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth;* and it was so.
He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, *Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.
I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,* says the LORD of Armies, *if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.