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Jeremiah 3:3

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain,.... There were two seasons of the year when rain in common fell upon the land of Israel, called the former and the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Jeremiah 3:1-5

These verses some make to belong to the sermon in the foregoing chapter, and they open a door of hope to those who receive the conviction of the reproofs we had there; God wounds that he may heal. Now…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

no latter rain See ch. Jer 5:24, and for the general thought cp. Amo 4:6 ff. The wholly different rendering of the clause by LXX, though doubtless wrong, suggests an original Hebrew with the sense,…