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so that your children, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn that it is not the production of crops that feeds humankind but that your word sustains those who trust in you.
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For creation, serving you who made it, exerts itself to punish the unrighteous, and in kindness relaxes on behalf of those who trust in you.
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Therefore at that time also, changed into all forms, it served your all-nourishing bounty, according to the desire of those who had need,
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so that your children, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn that it is not the production of crops that feeds humankind but that your word sustains those who trust in you.
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For what was not destroyed by fire was melted when simply warmed by a fleeting ray of the sun,
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to make it known that one must rise before the sun to give you thanks, and must pray to you at the dawning of the light;
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