For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, ¹  and it would uproot ²  all my harvest.

Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, ¹  and our land will yield ²  its crops.

My fruit is better than the purest gold, ¹  and what I produce ²  is better than choice silver.

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, ¹  so is the one who boasts ²  of a gift not given. ³ 

The produce of the land is seized ¹  by all of them, even the king is served ²  by the fields. ³ 

Fairness will produce peace ¹  and result in lasting security. ² 

You conceive straw, ¹  you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. ² 

I will produce portents both in the sky ¹  and on the earth – blood, fire, and columns of smoke.

Then if ¹  it bears fruit next year, ²  very well, ³  but if ⁴  not, you can cut it down.’”

Not ¹  only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

Now the works of the flesh ¹  are obvious: ²  sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

But the fruit of the Spirit ¹  is love, ²  joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ³ 

Then the anger of the Lord will erupt ¹  against you and he will close up the sky ²  so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed ³  from the good land that the Lord ⁴  is about to give you.

The Lord will greatly multiply your children, ¹  the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he ²  promised your ancestors ³  he would give you.

They ¹  will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, ²  or lambs of your flocks ³  until they have destroyed you.

The king asked the woman about it, and she gave him the details. ¹  The king assigned a eunuch to take care of her request and ordered him, ²  “Give her back everything she owns, as well as the amount of crops her field produced from the day she left the land until now.”

We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce ¹  of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. ² 

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

You ¹  go get straw for yourselves wherever you can ²  find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. ¹  You must give me the firstborn of your sons.