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Deuteronomy 28:23
Deuteronomy 28:23 is verse 23 of Deuteronomy chapter 28, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
King James Version
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
World English Bible
Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
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Deuteronomy 28:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
22 The 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.
23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
24 The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Leviticus 26:19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
1 Kings 18:2So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,
Jeremiah 14:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Jeremiah 14:2“Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 14:3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
Jeremiah 14:4The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.
Jeremiah 14:5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 14:6Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
Amos 4:7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.