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 the heavens which over thy head were brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
Dryness, also heat, will strip the snow waters: hades him sinning.
For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.
My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.
A sword upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: for it is a land of carved images, and in their terrors they will be foolish.
The field was laid waste, the land mourned; for the grain was laid waste, the new wine was dried up, the new oil languished. The husbandmen were ashamed; wail, ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley, for the harvest of the field perished. read more. The vine was dried up, and the fig tree languished; the pomegranate, also the palm tree and the apple tree; all the trees of the field were dried up, for joy was dried up from the sons of man. Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God. Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah. Alas! for the day: for the day of Jehovah is near, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Was not the food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness? The kernels died beneath the clods, the treasures were laid waste, the garners were pulled down, for the grain was dried up. How the beasts groaned! the herds of oxen wept, for no pasture to them; also the flocks of sheep were laid waste. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call: for a fire consumed the habitations of the desert, and the flame burned all the trees of the field. Also the beasts of the field will look up to thee: for the channels of waters were dried up, and the fire devoured the habitations of the desert.
And I will call the drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine and upon the new oil, and upon what the earth shall bring forth, and upon man and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
Easton
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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I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and cold in the night, and sleep will flee away from mine eyes.
And it being if hearing thou shalt hear to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to watch and to do all his commands that I command thee this day, and Jehovah thy God gave thee high above all the nations of the earth.
For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.
My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.
And I will call the drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine and upon the new oil, and upon what the earth shall bring forth, and upon man and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.