Deuteronomy 28:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The sky over your head shall be bronze and the earth under you iron.

Cross References

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.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria.

Leviticus 26:19

I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper.

Amos 4:7

And I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city and send no rain on another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:24

The Lord will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.