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. 
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].