Isaac sowed crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.

I will send you rain at the right time, so that the land will produce crops and the trees will bear fruit.

Your crops will be so plentiful that you will still be harvesting grain when it is time to pick grapes, and you will still be picking grapes when it is time to plant grain. You will have all that you want to eat, and you can live in safety in your land.

"The LORD will bless you with many children, with abundant crops, and with many cattle and sheep.

"The LORD will bless everything you do.

"The LORD your God will bless your work and fill your barns with grain. He will bless you in the land that he is giving you.

Then all the peoples on earth will see that the LORD has chosen you to be his own people, and they will be afraid of you.

He will send rain in season from his rich storehouse in the sky and bless all your work, so that you will lend to many nations, but you will not have to borrow from any.

The land has produced its harvest; God, our God, has blessed us.

God has blessed us; may all people everywhere honor him.

Honor the LORD by making him an offering from the best of all that your land produces.

If you do, your barns will be filled with grain, and you will have too much wine to store it all.

Whenever you plant your crops, the Lord will send rain to make them grow and will give you a rich harvest, and your livestock will have plenty of pasture.

"I will bless them and let them live around my sacred hill. There I will bless them with showers of rain when they need it.

The trees will bear fruit, the fields will produce crops, and everyone will live in safety on his own land. When I break my people's chains and set them free from those who made them slaves, then they will know that I am the LORD.

I will increase the yield of your fruit trees and your fields, so that there will be no more famines to disgrace you among the nations.

At that time I will answer the prayers of my people Israel. I will make rain fall on the earth, and the earth will produce grain and grapes and olives.

I will establish my people in the land and make them prosper. I will show love to those who were called "Unloved," and to those who were called "Not-My-People" I will say, "You are my people," and they will answer, "You are our God."

Animals, don't be afraid. The pastures are green; the trees bear their fruit, and there are plenty of figs and grapes.

"The days are coming," says the LORD, "when grain will grow faster than it can be harvested, and grapes will grow faster than the wine can be made. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with it.

I will plant my people on the land I gave them, and they will not be pulled up again." The LORD your God has spoken.

Although there is no grain left, and the grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced, yet from now on I will bless you."

May the land enjoy prosperity; may it experience righteousness.

And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.

May God give you dew from heaven and make your fields fertile! May he give you plenty of grain and wine!

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.

About the tribe of Joseph he said: "May the LORD bless their land with rain And with water from under the earth.

So Jacob's descendants live in peace, secure in a land full of grain and wine, where dew from the sky waters the ground.

A prophet named Elijah, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to King Ahab, "In the name of the LORD, the living God of Israel, whom I serve, I tell you that there will be no dew or rain for the next two or three years until I say so."

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

I will be to the people of Israel like rain in a dry land. They will blossom like flowers; they will be firmly rooted like the trees of Lebanon.

That is why there is no rain and nothing can grow.

"This may seem impossible to those of the nation who are now left, but it's not impossible for me.

"The time is coming," says the LORD, "when I will gather together the people I punished, those who have suffered in exile.

They are crippled and far from home, but I will make a new beginning with those who are left, and they will become a great nation. I will rule over them on Mount Zion from that time on and forever."

No one, then, should boast about what human beings can do. Actually everything belongs to you:

Your shame and disgrace are ended. You will live in your own land, And your wealth will be doubled; Your joy will last forever.

I will bring you, my people Israel, back to live again in the land. It will be your own land, and it will never again let your children starve.

"But on Mount Zion some will escape, and it will be a sacred place. The people of Jacob will possess the land that is theirs by right.

"People from southern Judah will occupy Edom; those from the western foothills will capture Philistia. Israelites will possess the territory of Ephraim and Samaria; the people of Benjamin will take Gilead.

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.