We bless you on behalf of the much tried among your children. They went through fire and through water; men did go over their heads, yet you have preserved them.
Their hope seemed to wither like the fading leaf, and the summer of their joy turned into a bleak winter of adversity, yet the springtime has come to them, and the time of the singing of birds; yes, they begin to pluck their first ripe fruits, and they joy and exult in the Lord.