Reference: Drought
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Was an evil to which Palestine was naturally subject, as no rain fell from May to September. During these months of summer, the ground became parched and cleft, the streams and springs became dry, and vegetation was kept from extinction by the dews at night and by artificial irrigation. If rain did not come in its season and abundantly, the distress was general and dreadful. A drought therefore is threatened as one of God's sorest judgments, Job 24:19; Jer 50:38; Joe 1:10-20; Hag 1:11; and there are many allusions to its horrors in Scripture, De 28:23; Ps 32:4; 102:4.
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And thy sky that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, [and] Sheol [those who] have sinned.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah.
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. Be confounded, O ye husbandmen. Wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field is perished. read more. The vine is withered, and the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. For joy has withered away from the sons of men. Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, ye priests. Wail, ye ministers of the altar. Come, lay all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God. For the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withheld from the house of your G Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land to the house of LORD your God, and cry to LORD. Alas for the day! For the day of LORD is at hand, and it shall come as destruction from the Almighty. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, [yea], joy and gladness from the house of our God? The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered. How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. O LORD, to thee do I cry. For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. Yea, the beasts of the field pant to thee, for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of th
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From the middle of May to about the middle of August the land of Palestine is dry. It is then the "drought of summer" (Ge 31:40; Ps 32:4), and the land suffers (De 28:1; Ps 102:4), vegetation being preserved only by the dews (Hag 1:11). (See Dew.)
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Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
And it shall come to pass, if thou shall hearken diligently to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the ear
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah.
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of th