But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven,

that He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early and late rain, that you may gather in your grain and your new wine and your oil.

Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

“Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.