of a downpour, which can also turn the surrounding desert into a place of grass and flowers overnight.69 Matching this is the other picture of revival, in terms of farming at its most heart-breaking; all its joys hard-won (cf. 2 Cor. 9:6) and long-awaited (Gal. 6:7–10; Jas 5:7f.). But whatever the uncertainties of literal farming, the psalmist is as sure of this harvest—God’s blessing of seed sown,70 and his visiting of his people—as are the apostles. The modern translations tend to omit the extra