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24 And do not say in their hearts,
    “Let us fear the Lord, our God,
Who gives us rain
    early and late,[a] in its time;
Who watches for us
    over the appointed weeks of harvest.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:24 Rain early and late: autumn and spring rains respectively. Appointed weeks of harvest: the seven weeks between the Passover (Dt 16:9–10) and the feast of Weeks (Pentecost), when it did not ordinarily rain.

24 They do not say to themselves,
    ‘Let us fear(A) the Lord our God,
who gives autumn and spring rains(B) in season,
    who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’(C)

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