I will provide pasture<n id="1" /> for your livestock and you will eat your fill.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">It will produce thorns and thistles for you,p> <p class="poetry">but you will eat the grain<n id="1" /> of the field.p>

<p class="poetry">They ate all the vegetation in their land,p> <p class="poetry">and devoured the crops of their fields.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">They traded their majestic God<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for the image of an ox that eats grass.p>

<p class="poetry">A king&#8217;s wrath is like<n id="1" /> the roar of a lion,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but his favor is like dew on the grass.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">My teaching will drop like the rain,p> <p class="poetry">my sayings will drip like the dew,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as rain drops upon the grass,p> <p class="poetry">and showers upon new growth.p>

<p class="poetry">When the wicked sprout up like grass,p> <p class="poetry">and all the evildoers glisten,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it is so that they may be annihilated.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Wild donkeys stand on the hilltopsp> <p class="poetry">and pant for breath like jackals.p> <p class="poetry">Their eyes are strained looking for food,p> <p class="poetry">because there is none to be found.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

The land produced vegetation &#8211; plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.

You may eat any moving thing that lives.<n id="1" /> As I gave you<n id="2" /> the green plants, I now give<n id="3" /> you everything.p>

<p class="poetry">Their residents are powerless,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are terrified and ashamed.p> <p class="poetry">They are as short-lived as plants in the field,p> <p class="poetry">or green vegetation.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">when it is scorched by the east wind.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their residents are powerless;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are terrified and ashamed.p> <p class="poetry">They are as short-lived as plants in the fieldp> <p class="poetry">or green vegetation.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">when it is scorched by the east wind.<n id="4" />p>

When they had completely consumed the earth&#8217;s vegetation, I said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, forgive Israel!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">How can Jacob survive?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He is too weak!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Ask the <sc>Lordsc> for rain in the season of the late spring rains<n id="1" /> &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc> who causes thunderstorms &#8211; and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the land produce vegetation:<n id="1" /> plants yielding seeds according to their kinds,<n id="2" /> and<n id="3" /> trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.&#8221; It was so.

Then God said, &#8220;I now<n id="1" /> give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.<n id="2" />

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground &#8211; everything that has the breath of life in it &#8211; I give<n id="1" /> every green plant for food.&#8221; It was so.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field<n id="2" /> had yet sprouted, for the <sc>Lordsc> God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Extend your hand toward the sky<n id="1" /> that there may be<n id="2" /> hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals,<n id="3" /> and on everything that grows<n id="4" /> in the field in the land of Egypt.&#8221;

The hail struck everything in the open fields, both<n id="1" /> people and animals, throughout all the land of Egypt. The hail struck everything that grows<n id="2" /> in the field, and it broke all the trees of the field to pieces.