Deuteronomy 11:8-17

The Blessings of the Promised Land

⁸ So it's you who are in charge of keeping the entire commandment that I command you today so that you'll have the strength to invade and possess the land that you are crossing the river to make your own. ⁹ Your obedience will give you a long life on the soil that God promised to give your ancestors and their children, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ The land you are entering to take up ownership isn't like Egypt, the land you left, where you had to plant your own seed and water it yourselves as in a vegetable garden. ¹¹ But the land you are about to cross the river and take for your own is a land of mountains and valleys; it drinks water that rains from the sky. ¹² It's a land that God, your God, personally tends - he's the gardener - he alone keeps his eye on it all year long. ¹³ From now on if you listen obediently to the commandments that I am commanding you today, love God, your God, and serve him with everything you have within you, ¹⁴ he'll take charge of sending the rain at the right time, both autumn and spring rains, so that you'll be able to harvest your grain, your grapes, your olives. ¹⁵ He'll make sure there's plenty of grass for your animals. You'll have plenty to eat. ¹⁶ But be vigilant, lest you be seduced away and end up serving and worshiping other gods ¹⁷ and God erupts in anger and shuts down Heaven so there's no rain and nothing grows in the fields, and in no time at all you're starved out - not a trace of you left on the good land that God is giving you.