May he be like rain(A) falling on a mown field,
    like showers watering the earth.

Read full chapter

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Read full chapter

In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.(A)

Read full chapter

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

Read full chapter

a reaper cannot fill his hands with it,(A)
    nor one who gathers fill his arms.

Read full chapter

Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

Read full chapter

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(A) He was preparing swarms of locusts(B) after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up.

Read full chapter

Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

Read full chapter