
Why Does God Make Both Good Times and Bad?
Lisa Loraine Baker
And all nations shall call you blessed
When they shall see the land freed from the devouring locust, and other hurtful creatures; the former and the latter rains given in their season, and the earth yielding a large increase:
for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts;
or a desirable F14 one; not only pleasant to themselves, being fruitful, but wished for by others, by their neighbouring nations, who, seeing their prosperity, could not but desire to dwell with them; or delightsome to the Lord of hosts: thus Jarchi interprets it, the land that I delight in; and so Aben Ezra; to which agrees the Targum,
``and all nations shall praise you, because you dwell in the land of the house of my Shechinah or majesty, and do my will in it;''and the Syriac version renders it, "the land of my delight": see ( Isaiah 62:4 ) .