"I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.
"Rain upon one city ... not to rain on another ..." This merely describes the capricious and indiscriminate aspect of the drought; but there is no thought here that cities blessed with rain were any more righteous than the ones without it.  Jesus taught quite clearly that the "rain falls on the just mid unjust," and God sends the sunshine upon the good and bad alike.  It is the over-all condition that is sent by God, the controlling pattern which produces failures and blessings indiscriminately mingled.  Men proved to be undependable in their responses to the will of God; and therefore, God has sent them an environment in which to live which is also not dependable.  Men should get the message and repent and turn to God.