TSK · Amos 4:7

But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of this land.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

“The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

They do not say to themselves,“Let us revere the LORD our God. It is he who gives us the autumn rains and the spring rains at the proper time. It is he who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.”

They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

Don’t you say,‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months!