Sirach

Chief of all needs for human life
are water and fire, iron and salt,
The heart of the wheat, milk and honey,
the blood of the grape, and oil, and clothing.

Sirach 39: 26

One from the backlog, taken from all over Sirach 39:

You give the water and the fire,
the iron and the salt,
the mercy and the flaming ire,
the being and the naught.

O God, all that you give is good:
the heart of ripened wheat,
the oil and cloth, the grape's red blood,
the milk and honey sweet.

These are the staves that hold off death,
but other gifts you give:
the fire and hail and pestilence
breathed out on all who live.

The scorpion sting and spider bite,
the storm and falling stone
rejoice to exercise your might
and bow before your throne.

All that you made is very good
and to the good brings health:
The bread and wine, the flame and flood,
and the last gift is death.

Nothing is evil in its time;
nothing but what we do
smears your creation with our grime,
drags us away from you.

Pour down your mercy once again
in water, bread, and wine.
Lead us to know their goodness then,
and our own good to find.