Deuteronomy 28:23

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

Majority Standard Bible

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 strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

24The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

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Cross References

1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

Jeremiah 14:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

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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