Deuteronomy 28:23

New American Bible - revised edition

The heavens over your heads will be like bronze and the earth under your feet like iron.

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 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine in Samaria was severe,

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,

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;

Haggai 1:10

Therefore, the heavens withheld the dew, and the earth its yield.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, with blight and mildew, that will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:24

For rain the Lord will give your land powdery dust, which will come down upon you from the heavens until you are destroyed.