Three months to the harvest. — The withdrawal of rain at this period (February and March) is at the present day most calamitous to the crops in Palestine.
Caused it to rain... — The tenses should be regarded as expressing repetition of the act, and might be, with advantage, rendered as present cause it to rain... is rained upon, &c. The inhabitants of the most suffering districts wander, distracted and weary, to a more favoured city, and find no sufficiency. Comp. the graphic description in Jeremiah 14:1-6. Moreover, the specialties of affliction, in particular localities. reveal the purpose of God rather than the operation of universal laws.