They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness,.... As well as upon the ploughed land, and turn them into a fruitful field; which may denote the Gentile world, whither the Gospel was sent by Christ, and preached by his apostles; and whose doctrines dropped as the rain, and prospered to the thing whereunto they were sent, and made this wilderness as the garden of God;
and the little hills rejoice on every side; or "joy girds the hills"; or "they are girded with joy" r; or "gird themselves with joy", as the Targum; being covered on all sides with grass, herbs, and trees: these may denote the churches of Christ, and little hills of Sion, who rejoice when the interest of Christ flourishes, Psalms 68:14.
r וגיל גבעות תחגרנה "collesque exultatione accinguntur", Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Ainsworth; "accinxerunt se", Pagninus; "accingent se", Montanus.