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 your heaven that is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad over their idols.
The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. Be ashamed, O you farmers; wail, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished. read more. The vine is dried up, 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: because joy has withered away from the sons of men. Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: wail, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God. Sanctify you a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD. Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God? The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain has withered. How 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 you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field cry also unto you: for the rivers of waters 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 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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Thus I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that the LORD your God will set you on high above all nations of the earth:
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that 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 the hands.