Son of man, say unto her, thou land,.... Thou land of Israel, as the Targum:thou art not cleansed; from filthiness, by the fire of divine judgments; or reformed from sins, by the instructions, cautions, and exhortations of the prophets; none of these things had any effect upon her to make her wiser and better.
So the Targum,"a land not cleansed it is, and good works are not done in it, to protect it in the day of cursing:''nor rained upon in the day of indignation; no cooling shower to quench the fire of divine wrath; nothing to avert or stop the judgments of God; no refreshment and comfort from the doctrines of the prophets, which fell like rain: it is a judgment upon a people to have no rain, either in a temporal or spiritual sense; see Zec 14:17.
In the Talmud , this text is brought to prove that the flood did not come upon the land of Israel. T. Bab. Zebachim, fol. 113.