Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 4:7

7 And I also have withholden the rain from you , when there were yet three months to the harvest, and I caused it to rain upon one city , and caused it not to rain upon another city : one piece was rained upon , and the piece whereupon it rained not withered .

Your vanities could not, and because ye did so greatly sin against me I would not give you rain, I forbad the Clouds from above, and they thus prohibited did withhold their rain as I threatned, Deut. 28.23, 24,

A[illegible: 1 letter] a season when your Countrey most usually had, and as then it ever did most need, rain, vid. Ioel 2.23. Three months drought then as 'twas unusual in the course of nature, so 'twas an extraordinary curse and punishment on them.

That you might see my hand in it and be instructed, I gave rain to one City.

And withheld rain from the next Neighbor City,

Nay one part of a Field the same field

watered and flourisht.

Another part dry and withered.

All this to con[illegible: 1 letter]ince and turn you.