Deuteronomy 28:24
May the Lord give you dust instead of rain upon your land, and may ashes descend from heaven over you, until you have been wiped away.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23May the heavens which are above you be of brass, and may the ground upon which you tread be of iron.
Cross References
Genesis 19:24Therefore, the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulphur and fire, from the Lord, out of heaven.
Job 18:15Let the companions of he who is not, dwell in his tabernacle; let brimstone rain down upon his tabernacle.
Amos 4:11I overturned you, just as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became like an ember seized from the fire. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.
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 →