My teaching will fall like drops of rain and form on the earth like dew. My words will fall like showers on young plants, like gentle rain on tender grass.

is like the sun shining on a cloudless dawn, the sun that makes the grass sparkle after rain."

I was like a tree whose roots always have water and whose branches are wet with dew.

May the king be like rain on the fields, like showers falling on the land.

The king's anger is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like welcome rain.

The LORD said to me, "I will look down from heaven as quietly as the dew forms in the warm nights of harvest time, as serenely as the sun shines in the heat of the day.

Those of our people who have died will live again! Their bodies will come back to life. All those sleeping in their graves will wake up and sing for joy. As the sparkling dew refreshes the earth, so the LORD will revive those who have long been dead.

"I will give water to the thirsty land and make streams flow on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your children and my blessing on your descendants.

The people of Israel who survive will be like refreshing dew sent by the LORD for many nations, like showers on growing plants. They will depend on God, not people.

I am only a wild flower in Sharon, a lily in a mountain valley.

Like a lily among thorns is my darling among women.

My lover is mine, and I am his. He feeds his flock among the lilies

Your breasts are like gazelles, twin deer feeding among lilies.

"And why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow: they do not work or make clothes for themselves.

Look how the wild flowers grow: they don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers.

Those in Judah who survive will flourish like plants that send roots deep into the ground and produce fruit.

May there be plenty of grain in the land; may the hills be covered with crops, as fruitful as those of Lebanon. May the cities be filled with people, like fields full of grass.

In the days to come the people of Israel, the descendants of Jacob, will take root like a tree, and they will blossom and bud. The earth will be covered with the fruit they produce.

The desert will sing and shout for joy; it will be as beautiful as the Lebanon Mountains and as fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see the LORD's splendor, see his greatness and power.

This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I will take the top of a tall cedar and break off a tender sprout; I will plant it on a high mountain,

All the trees in the land will know that I am the LORD. I cut down the tall trees and make small trees grow tall. I wither up the green trees and make the dry trees become green. I, the LORD, have spoken. I will do what I have said I would do."

and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love,