in the former # 38_ZEC_08_11  But now I [will] not [be] unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. ## But now I [will] not [be] unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts. 
rain the former # 29_JOE_02_23  Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God_ for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month]. ## Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].