OLD TESTAMENT

Joel 1:20

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Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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Verse 20. Up, as if to pray for rain. Jeremiah 14:6. Calmet.—Hebrew “cry,” ( Bible.) or “pant.”—As … rain is not in Hebrew or Septuagint Calmet.

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