For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The declaration marks the arrival of spring, when winter has ended and the rainy season has passed. It belongs to a poetic picture of renewed life breaking forth with the coming of spring. The scene is set after winter is past and the latter rain is over, at the fresh beginning of spring.
The rain that is finished is the latter rain, whose ending opens that fresh spring beginning. That season is the season of the Passover in Abib, corresponding to late March and early April.
The declaration marks the arrival of spring, when winter has ended and the rainy season has passed. It belongs to a poetic picture of renewed life breaking forth with the coming of spring. The scene is set after winter is past and the latter rain is over, at the fresh beginning of spring.
The rain that is finished is the latter rain, whose ending opens that fresh spring beginning. That season is the season of the Passover in Abib, corresponding to late March and early April.