1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Jeremiah 5:24 And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.

Rain, in autumn and in spring, Deuteronomy 11:14. (Calmet) --- Fulness. Hebrew, "the weeks for harvest." (Haydock) --- That of barley began at the Passover, and that of wheat ended before the feast of weeks, (Exodus 34:22., and Leviticus 23:10.; Calmet) or Pentecost. (Haydock)