Your iniquities have turned away these things,.... Whereas of late years rain was withheld from them in common, and they had not the former and latter rain in its season, nor the appointed weeks of the harvest, and so their land was barren, and famine ensued.
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Jeremiah 5:25
Jeremiah 5:25
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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