until water: Some suppose that this means a providential supply of rain, in order to remove the famine; but from the manner in which it is introduced, it seems to denote the autumnal rains, which commence about October. For five months did this broken-hearted woman watch by the bodies of her sons! Deu 11:14; 1Ki 18:41-45; Jer 5:24-25, Jer 14:22; Hos 6:3; Joe 2:23; Zec 10:1