23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
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Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. …
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-27)See how ready God is to succour and relieve his people, how he waits to be gracious ; as soon as ever they humble themselves under this hand, and pray, and seek his face, he immediately meets them with his favours. They prayed that God would spare them , and see here with what good words and comfortable words he answered them; for God’s promises are real answers to the prayers of faith, because wi…
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