10  ^q“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven

and do not return there but water the earth,

making it bring forth and sprout,

^rgiving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

11  so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;

it shall not return to me empty,

but ^sit shall accomplish that which I purpose,

and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

22  After I spoke they did not speak again,

and my word ^cdropped upon them.

23  They waited for me as for the rain,

and they ^dopened their mouths as for the ^espring rain.