4:7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. 1
I gave rain to one city, but not to another.
One field 2 would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.
4:10 “I sent against you a plague like one of the Egyptian plagues. 3
I killed your young men with the sword,
along with the horses you had captured.
I made the stench from the corpses 4 rise up into your nostrils.
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking!
1 sn Rain…three months before the harvest refers to the rains of late March-early April.
2 tn Heb “portion”; KJV, ASV “piece”; NASB “part.” The same word occurs a second time later in this verse.
3 tn Heb “in the manner [or “way”] of Egypt.”
4 tn Heb “of your camps [or “armies”].”