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24. land . . . not cleansed--not cleared or cultivated; all a scene
of desolation; a fit emblem of the moral wilderness state of the people.
nor rained upon--a mark of divine "indignation"; as the early and
latter rain, on which the productiveness of the land depended, was one
of the great covenant blessings. Joel
(Joe 2:23)
promises the return of the former and latter rain, with the restoration
of God's favor.
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