Prayer for Dew

bp Dew - Let it sweeten the mountain streams; let the chosen ones taste Your magnanimity. Free Your beloved ones from captivity, then sweetly we will raise our voices and sing With dew. by Dew — May it fill our granaries to overflowing. Would that now You might renew our days. Beloved! Let our name endure as Yours. Make us like a well-watered garden — With dew. by Dew — With it bless our food; in our fertile lands may there be no scarcity. The nation You once led like a flock, on her please, we pray, bestow Your favor — With dew. Leader: For You, LORD our God, make the wind blow and the dew fall. Congregation then Leader, responsively: For blessing, and not for curse. Cong: Amen. For life, and not for death. Cong: Amen. For plenty, and not for scarcity. Cong: Amen. The Ark is closed. The Leader continues the Repetition with “He sustains the living” on page 856. ap xd) m3109 For blessing, and not for curse: In this rousing three-line climax (paralleled i in the Prayer for Rain), Leader and congregation join in fervent prayer that the forces of nature, under the care of the Maker of nature, should bring blessing to the land and its people.