²³ They waited for me as for the rain,
    and they ^(A)opened their mouths as for the ^(B)spring rain.

²⁴ They do not say in their hearts,
    ‘Let us fear the Lord our God,
^(A)who gives the rain in its season,
    the autumn rain and the spring rain,
and keeps for us
    ^(B)the weeks appointed for the harvest.’

^3 (A)Let us know; ^(B)let us press on to know the Lord;
    ^(C)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us ^(D)as the showers,
    ^(E)as the spring rains that water the earth.”