Deuteronomy 28:23

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

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  • Lev 26:19 : 19 I will break your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."
  • 1 Kgs 18:2 : 2 So Elijah went to appear before Ahab. The famine in Samaria was severe.
  • Jer 14:1-6 : 1 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts. 2 Judah mourns, and her gates languish; they sit on the ground in mourning, and the cry of Jerusalem rises up. 3 The nobles sent their servants for water; they went to the cisterns but found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and humiliated, covering their heads. 4 Because the ground is cracked due to the lack of rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads. 5 Even the doe in the field abandons her newborn because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights, panting like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 I withheld the rain from you when there were still three months until harvest. I caused it to rain on one city but not on another; one field received rain, while another withered due to lack of it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:24-25
    2 verses
    83%

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

    25The 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 directions. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Lev 26:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19I will break your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

    20Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Deut 28:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

    21The LORD will cause pestilence to cling to you until He has consumed you from the land that you are entering to possess.

    22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, scorching heat, drought, blight, and mildew, which will pursue you until you perish.

  • Job 28:2
    74%

    2Iron is taken from the ground, and copper is smelted from ore.

  • Deut 8:9
    74%

    9A land where you will eat bread without scarcity—where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can dig copper.

  • Deut 28:33-37
    5 verses
    74%

    33A people you don’t know will eat the fruit of your land and the result of your labor. You will be oppressed and crushed continually.

    34You will go mad because of the things you see with your own eyes.

    35The LORD will strike you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and legs, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

    36The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

    37You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.

  • Jer 15:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12Can iron break iron from the north, or bronze?

    13Your wealth and your treasures I will give as plunder, without price, because of all your sins throughout your territory.

    14I will make your enemies pass into a land you do not know, for a fire is kindled in My anger, and it will burn against you.

  • Deut 28:48
    73%

    48You will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and total destitution. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

  • Deut 33:25
    73%

    25The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will last as long as your days.

  • Deut 11:17
    72%

    17Then the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no produce. Then you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.

  • Job 28:5
    71%

    5The earth produces food, but beneath it is overturned as if by fire.

  • Deut 29:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22The whole land will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, no vegetation growing. It will be like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

    23All the nations will ask, 'Why has the LORD done this to this land? Why this fierce, burning anger?'

  • Lev 26:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring sudden terror upon you, wasting diseases and fever that destroy your eyes and drain your strength. You will plant your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

    17I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is chasing you.

  • Deut 28:15-18
    4 verses
    70%

    15But if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your God and carefully follow all His commandments and statutes I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.

    16Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.

    17Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.

    18Cursed will be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your land, the offspring of your cattle, and the increase of your flocks.

  • Deut 28:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, scabs, and an incurable itch.

    28The LORD will strike you with madness, blindness, and confusion of heart.

  • Isa 30:23
    70%

    23He will also send rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.

  • Job 20:24
    69%

    24Though he flees from an iron weapon, a bronze arrow will pierce him.

  • Ezek 22:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my wrath upon you.

    23The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Nah 3:15
    69%

    15There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

  • Job 20:27
    69%

    27The heavens will expose his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

  • Isa 28:18
    69%

    18Your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

  • Josh 23:15
    69%

    15But just as all the good things the LORD your God promised you have come to pass, so too the LORD will bring upon you the bad things He threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

  • Isa 60:17
    69%

    17Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze; and instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your rulers righteousness.

  • Deut 28:51-52
    2 verses
    68%

    51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, or fresh oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have wiped you out.

    52They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Deut 28:12
    68%

    12The LORD will open the heavens, His rich treasury, to give rain to your land in its season and bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

  • Hag 1:10
    68%

    10Therefore, because of you, the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

  • Deut 28:42
    68%

    42Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.

  • Isa 29:4
    68%

    4You will be brought low; from the ground you will speak, and your words will come in a muffled way from the dust. Your voice will sound like that of a ghost from the earth, and your speech will whisper from the dust.

  • Hag 2:17
    68%

    17I struck you—all the work of your hands— with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to me—this is the declaration of the LORD.

  • Lev 26:38
    68%

    38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Deut 28:61
    68%

    61The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not written in this Book of the Law, until you are completely destroyed.