His hair began to grow back after it had been shaved off.

to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

For just as the ground produces its crops and a garden yields its produce, so the sovereign Lord will cause deliverance to grow, and give his people reason to praise him in the sight of all the nations.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.

Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

Faithfulness grows from the ground, and deliverance looks down from the sky.

There I will make David strong; I have determined that my chosen king’s dynasty will continue.

They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water.

Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove of flourishing trees.

Look, my earlier predictive oracles have come to pass; now I announce new events. Before they begin to occur, I reveal them to you.”

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant of David. “‘He will do what is just and right in the land.

If, as far as the priest can see, the scall has stayed the same and black hair has sprouted in it, the scall has been healed; the person is clean. So the priest is to pronounce him clean.

Messengers told David what had happened, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown again; then you may come back.”

“Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the desert and paths in the wilderness.

O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the Lord, create it.