Song of Songs Rabbah ii. 29 on ii. 13. This is a
comment on the words in ii. 13: “The fig tree putteth forth her green figs.”
The whole passage reads, in a literal translation, as follows:
R. Johanan said: As for the seven years in which the
Son of David comes: the first ear will see established what is written (Amos
iv) “And I caused it to rain upon one
city” etc. In the second arrows of hunger shall be sent upon it: in the
third a great famine and men and women and children will die, and the pious and
the men of “good works” will be diminished: and the Torah will be forgotten
from Israel: in the fourth there will be hunger and no hunger: plenty and no
plenty: in the fifth a great plenty: and they shall eat and drink and rejoice
and the Torah shall return to its renewal and it will be renewed to Israel.
(The Soncino translation gives: “the Torah will be
renewed and restored to Israel”: p. 126)
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