Zechariah 10:1

Ask ye of the Lord, &c.— They asked of the Lord, &c. so the Lord gave them thunders and large showers, and every one had a green and flourishing field. This verse certainly ought not to have been separated from the foregoing, as it accounts for the joyous and plentiful harvests there spoken of, by attributing them to the seasonable showers vouchsafed by God in regard of the people having addressed their supplications to him; as, on the contrary, in the two next verses, their past misfortunes are expressly ascribed to their having had recourse to idols, which could not hear nor help them.