Deuteronomy 28:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

Leviticus 26:19

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

Amos 4:7

And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

Haggai 1:10

For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.

Deuteronomy 28:24

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.