Deuteronomy 11:17

English Standard Version 2016

then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:35

“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

Amos 4:7

“I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;

2 Chronicles 6:26

“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

2 Chronicles 7:13

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

Deuteronomy 9:19

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the Lord bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me that time also.

Deuteronomy 31:20

For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

Job 12:15

If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

Leviticus 26:19

and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

Leviticus 26:20

And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.