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"His blessing covers the dry land like a river, and drenches it like a flood.
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But his wrath drives out the nations, as when he turned a watered land into salt.
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To the faithful his ways are straight, but full of pitfalls for the wicked.
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From the beginning good things were created for the good, but for sinners good things and bad.
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The basic necessities of human life are water and fire and iron and salt and wheat flour and milk and honey, the blood of the grape and oil and clothing.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.