Leviticus 26:19
So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Deuteronomy 11:17So would the anger of Yahweh kindle upon you and he would shut up the heavens, that there should be no rain, and the ground, would not yield her increase,—so should ye perish speedily, from off the good land, which Yahweh is giving unto you.
1 Samuel 4:3And, when the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Yahweh smitten us to-day, before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us, out of Shiloh, the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that, when it cometh into our midst, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
1 Kings 8:35When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have been sinning against thee,—and they shall pray toward this place, and confess thy Name, and, from their sin, shall return, because thou hast been afflicting them,
Isaiah 2:12For, a day of Yahweh of hosts, [shall be] —Upon every one who is high and lofty,—And upon every one who is lifted up, And he shall be brought low;
Isaiah 26:5For he hath brought down the inhabitants of the height the city exalted,—He layeth it low, Layeth it low even to the ground, Levelleth it, even to the dust:
Jeremiah 14:1So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah, concerning the matter of the drought:—
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40
Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →