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¹¹Lo, my beloved speaks to me: ¹²Groom to Bride: Rise up, quickly, my love, my dove, my shapely one, and advance.

³He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, and we will live in his sight. We will understand, and we will continue on, so that we may know the Lord. His landing place has been prepared like the first light of morning, and he will come to us like the early and the late rains of the land.

¹Petition before the Lord for rain in the latter time, and the Lord will produce snows and will give showers of rain to them, to each blade in the field.

¹⁵In the cheerfulness of the king’s countenance, there is life. And his clemency is like belated rain.

¹⁴Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years.

¹⁰You spring forth fountains in steep valleys. The waters will cross through the midst of the mountains.

¹¹For as the earth brings forth its seedlings and the garden produces its seeds, so will the Lord God bring forth justice and praise in the sight of all the nations.

⁷Therefore, be patient, brothers, until the advent of the Lord. Consider that the farmer anticipates the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently, until he receives the early and the late rains.

²³They waited for me as for rain, and they opened their mouth as for belated rains.

¹All things have their time, and all things under heaven continue during their interval. ²A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pull up what was planted. ³A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to tear down, and a time to build up. ⁴A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. ⁵A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. ⁶A time to gain, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

¹¹Lo, my beloved speaks to me: ¹²Groom to Bride: Rise up, quickly, my love, my dove, my shapely one, and advance. ¹³For winter has now past; the rain has decreased and gone away.

²³And you, sons of Zion, exult and rejoice in the Lord your God. For he has given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the late rains descend to you, just as it was in the beginning.

¹⁴he will give to your land the early rain and the late rain, so that you may gather your grain, and your wine, and your oil,