Isaiah 45:8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Let justice descend, you heavens, like dew from above,
like gentle rain let the clouds drop it down.
Let the earth open and salvation bud forth;
let righteousness spring up with them![a]
I, the Lord, have created this.(A)
Footnotes
- 45:8 The Vulgate rendering gave a messianic sense to this verse, using “just one” and “savior” in place of “justice” and “salvation,” phraseology taken over in the Advent liturgy, e.g., the “Rorate coeli.”
Joel 2:23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
23 Children of Zion, delight
and rejoice in the Lord, your God!
For he has faithfully given you the early rain,[a]
sending rain down on you,
the early and the late rains as before.(A)
Footnotes
- 2:23 This autumn rain teaches the people to recognize God’s compassionate presence in nature and history. There is a play on the double meaning of the Hebrew word moreh: “early rain” and “teacher.” In the Dead Sea Scrolls, the word is used in the phrase “teacher (= moreh) of righteousness.”
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