May the Lord give you plenty of rain so you will have good crops and wine.
Deuteronomy 11:11 - Easy To Read Version But the land that you will soon get is not like that. In Israel there are mountains and valleys. And the land gets its water from the rain that falls from the sky. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 the Lord give you plenty of rain so you will have good crops and wine.
God, you sent the rain\par to make a tired, old land strong again.\par
Look at Samaria!\par The drunk people of Ephraim\par are proud of that city.\par That city sits on a hill\par with a rich valley around it.\par The people of Samaria think their city\par is a beautiful crown of flowers.\par But they are drunk with wine.\par And this “Beautiful Crown”\par is just a dying plant.\par
\{The Lord says,\}\par “I brought you into a good land,\par a land filled with many good things.\par I did this so you could eat the fruit and crops\par that grow there.\par But you only made my land ‘dirty.’\par I gave that land to you,\par but you made it a bad place.\par
So, mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord my Master! The Lord my Master says this to the mountains, hills, streams, valleys, empty ruins, and abandoned cities that have been looted and laughed at by the other nations around them.
The land that you will get is not like the land of Egypt that you came from. In Egypt, you planted your seeds, and then you used your feet {to pump water from the canals} to water your plants. {You watered your fields} the same way you water a vegetable garden.
\{Those people are like\} land that gets plenty of rain. A farmer plants and cares for that land so that it will give food for people. If that land grows plants that help people, then that land has the blessing of God.