Deuteronomy 28:24

YHWH gives dust and ashes [for] the rain of your land; it comes down on you from the heavens until you are destroyed.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

In Context

23And your heavens which [are] over your head have been bronze, and the earth which [is] under you iron;

25YHWH makes you struck before your enemies; in one way you go out to them, and in seven ways you flee before them, and you have been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth;

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Cross References

Genesis 19:24and YHWH has rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from YHWH, from the heavens;

Job 18:15It dwells in his tent—out of his provender, || Sulfur is scattered over his habitation.

Amos 4:11“I have overturned among you, || Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, || And you are as a brand delivered from a burning, || And you have not turned back to Me,” || A declaration of YHWH.

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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