Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

He shall come down like rain upon the grass before mowing, Like showers [that] water the earth.

Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter [and] former rain to the earth.

" O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud, And like the early dew it goes away.

I will be like the dew to Israel; He shall grow like the lily, And lengthen his roots like Lebanon.

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

He has not dealt thus with any nation; And [as for His] judgments, they have not known them. Praise the LORD!

These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: "Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.

"But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But He answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."