<p class="poetry">The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout.p> <p class="poetry">Yet the harvest will disappear<n id="2" /> in the day of diseasep> <p class="poetry">and incurable pain.p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t be afraid, for I am with you.p> <p class="poetry">From the east I will bring your descendants;p> <p class="poetry">from the west I will gather you.p>

<p class="poetry">Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your children<n id="2" /> like its granules.p> <p class="poetry">Their name would not have been cut offp> <p class="poetry">and eliminated from my presence.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for me, this is my promise to<n id="1" /> them,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>. &#8220;My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">For I will pour water on the parched ground<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and cause streams to flow<n id="2" /> on the dry land.p> <p class="poetry">I will pour my spirit on your offspringp> <p class="poetry">and my blessing on your children.p>

<p class="poetry">He will water the seed you plant in the ground,p> <p class="poetry">and the ground will produce crops in abundance.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">At that time<n id="2" /> your cattle will graze in wide pastures.p>