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 heavens that [are] over your heads shall be [like] bronze, and the earth that [is] under you [shall be like] iron.
Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah
My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
A drought [will come] against her waters, and they will dry up, for it [is] a land of images, and because of the frightful [objects], they act like madmen.
The field is destroyed; the earth mourns because [the] grain is destroyed, [the] new wine dries up, [the] olive oil languishes. Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over [the] wheat and over [the] barley, because [the] harvest of the field is ruined. read more. The vine withers and the fig tree droops. The pomegranate tree, and also the palm tree, the apple tree --all the trees of the field--are dried up. Indeed, joy is dried up among the sons of men. Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, ministers of [the] altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God. Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather [the] elders, all [of] the inhabitants of the land [in] the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh. Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai. [Is] not food cut [off] before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness? The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out. How [the] beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; [the] flocks of sheep are in distress. To you, Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames burned all the trees of the field. Also, the beasts of [the] field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert.
I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and wild animals, and on {all their labor}.'"
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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[There] I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
"And it will happen [that] if you indeed listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, {to diligently observe} all his commandments that I [am] commanding you {today}, then Yahweh your God will set you above all the nations of the earth.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah
My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and wild animals, and on {all their labor}.'"