I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- KJV And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- NKJV I will make them and the places all around My hill a blessing; and I will cause showers to come down in their season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- NASB I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will make showers fall in their season; they will be showers of blessing.
- NLT I will bless my people and their homes around my holy hill. And in the proper season I will send the showers they need. There will be showers of blessing.
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God will make His people and the area around His holy hill a blessing, sending seasonal 'showers of blessing.' Abundant grace will flow from God's presence.
Overview
The promise centers on God's 'hill'—Zion, the place of His presence—from which blessing radiates. 'Showers of blessing' picture timely rain bringing fertility, a sign of covenant favor (Lev. 26:4). God's people become a channel of blessing to the surrounding land, echoing the Abrahamic promise (Gen. 12:2-3) ultimately fulfilled as the gospel blessing flows to the nations through Christ.
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- Deut 28:12The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
- Isa 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
- Lev 26:4I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Ps 68:9You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.
- Gen 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
- Deut 11:13–15So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Ps 133:3It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
- Mal 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Isa 19:24In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.
- Zech 8:13As you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
- Mic 4:1–2In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it.
- Zech 8:23This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
- Isa 56:7I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
- Isa 32:20Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
- Ps 68:16Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
- Ps 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
- Isa 32:15until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
- Isa 2:2–4In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
- Ps 132:14–16“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.
- Ezek 20:40For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your offerings and choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.
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