Bible Verses

Ask from the Lord, the spring rain; and the Lord, who makes the lightning, will send showers of rain and make grass sprout in each one’s field.

How happy! How beautiful it will be! The grain will make young men flourish, and new wine will delight the maidens!

Fruitfulness On that day, the Lord their God will save them and gather them like a flock.

The Lord, God of hosts, will protect them; they will triumph and trample the wicked. They will drink blood like wine and be filled with it, like the bowls of the drink offering, like the horns of an altar.

The Lord will appear above them, his arrows flashing like lightning. He will sound his horn and arrive, in a storm from the south.

I shall bend my bow—Judah— and Ephraim shall be my arrow. I shall send your sons, O Zion, against the Greeks! For me, you shall be a warrior’s sword.

The prisoners who wait in expectation will return to you, O Zion; today, I declare that I will repay you double for your exile.

As for you, for the sake of your covenant sealed with blood, I shall release your prisoners from the ancient cistern.

No more chariots in Ephraim, no more horses in Jerusalem, for he will eliminate them. The warrior’s bow will be broken when he brings peace to the nations. He will rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

Peace and War Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout for joy, daughter of Jerusalem! For your king is coming —just and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.