Deuteronomy 11:17

New American Bible - revised edition

For then the anger of the Lord will flare up against you and he will close up the heavens, so that no rain will fall, and the soil will not yield its crops, and you will soon perish from the good land the Lord is giving you. Need for Fidelity.

Cross References

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.”

1 Kings 8:35

“When the heavens are closed, so that there is no rain, because they have sinned against you, but they pray toward this place and praise your name, and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

2 Chronicles 6:26

When the heavens are closed so that there is no rain, because they have sinned against you, but they pray toward this place and praise your name, and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

2 Chronicles 7:13

If I close heaven so that there is no rain, if I command the locust to devour the land, if I send pestilence among my people,

Job 12:15

He holds back the waters and there is drought; he sends them forth and they overwhelm the land.

Leviticus 26:19

to break your proud strength. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze,

Leviticus 26:20

so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.

Amos 4:7

And I withheld the rain from you when the harvest was still three months away; I sent rain upon one city but not upon another; One field was watered by rain, but the one I did not water dried up;

Deuteronomy 31:20

For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey which I promised on oath to their ancestors, and they have eaten and are satisfied and have grown fat, if they turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant,

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be utterly wiped out.

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the Lord, your God who is in your midst, is a passionate God—lest the anger of the Lord, your God, flare up against you and he destroy you from upon the land.

Deuteronomy 9:19

For I dreaded the fierce anger of the Lord against you: his wrath would destroy you. Yet once again the Lord listened to me.