In a little wrath I turned away My face from you; but with everlasting mercy will I have compassion upon you, says the Lord that delivers you.

For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither plowing, nor mowing.

Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. [There shall be] rest in seed time and in harvest.

The day is Yours, and the night is Yours; You have prepared the sun and the moon.

You have made all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and spring.

For behold, the winter is past, the rain is gone, it has departed.

The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle dove has been heard in our land.

From the time of the water of Noah this is My [purpose]; as I swore to him at that time, [saying] of the earth, I will no more be angry with you, neither when you are threatened,

And they have not said in their heart, Let us fear now the Lord our God, who gives us the early and latter rain, according to the season of the fulfillment of the ordinance of harvest, and has preserved [it] for us.

Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer awaits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until it receives the early and late rain.

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and [makes] a roaring in the sea, so that its waves roar: the Lord Almighty is His name:

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