Deuteronomy 28:23

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

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

In Context

22The 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.

24The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:1And 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.

Jeremiah 14:1The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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