Deuteronomy 28:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

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  • Lev 26:19 : 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze:
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word.
  • 1 Kgs 18:2 : 2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And there was a severe famine in Samaria.
  • Jer 14:1-6 : 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are in mourning on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the water; they came to the wells and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain on the earth, the farmers were ashamed, they covered their heads. 5 Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece where it did not rain withered.

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  • Deut 28:24-25
    2 verses
    83%

    24The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon you, until you are destroyed.

    25The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Lev 26:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze:

    20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

  • Deut 28:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20The LORD shall send upon you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand unto for to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the wickedness of your doings, whereby you have forsaken Me.

    21The LORD shall make the pestilence cling unto you, until He has consumed you from off the land, where you go to possess it.

    22The LORD shall strike you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

  • Job 28:2
    74%

    2Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is melted from the stone.

  • Deut 8:9
    74%

    9A land where you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

  • Deut 28:33-37
    5 verses
    74%

    33The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always:

    34So that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

    35The LORD shall strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a severe boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot unto the top of your head.

    36The LORD shall bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

    37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.

  • Jer 15:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?

    13Your substance and your treasures I will give to the spoil without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.

    14And I will make you to pass with your enemies into a land you do not know: for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.

  • Deut 28:48
    73%

    48Therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.

  • Deut 33:25
    73%

    25Your shoes shall be iron and bronze; and as your days, so shall your strength be.

  • Deut 11:17
    72%

    17And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so there is no rain, and the land yields no fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.

  • Job 28:5
    71%

    5As for the earth, out of it comes bread, and under it is overturned as if by fire.

  • Job 41:27
    71%

    27He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

  • Deut 29:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22So that the generation to come of your children that rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid upon it;

    23And that the whole land is brimstone, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath:

  • Lev 26:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

    17And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

  • Deut 28:15-18
    4 verses
    70%

    15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:

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

    17Cursed shall be your basket and your store.

    18Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, the increase of your kine, and the flocks of your sheep.

  • Deut 28:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof you cannot be healed.

    28The LORD shall strike you with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

  • Isa 30:23
    70%

    23Then shall he give the rain for your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be rich and plentiful: in that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.

  • Job 20:24
    69%

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of bronze shall strike him through.

  • Ezek 22:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall you be melted in its midst; and you shall know that I the LORD have poured out My fury upon you.

    23And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Nah 3:15
    69%

    15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • Job 20:27
    69%

    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

  • Isa 28:18
    69%

    18And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then you shall be trampled down by it.

  • Josh 23:15
    69%

    15Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things have come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Isa 60:17
    69%

    17For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood bronze, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and your magistrates righteousness.

  • Deut 28:51-52
    2 verses
    68%

    51And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land, until you are destroyed: which also shall not leave you either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of your kine, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.

    52And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Deut 28:12
    68%

    12The LORD shall open unto you His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend unto many nations, and you shall not borrow.

  • Hag 1:10
    68%

    10Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

  • Deut 28:42
    68%

    42All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

  • Isa 29:4
    68%

    4And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech shall be low out of the dust, and your voice shall be, as one that has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

  • Hag 2:17
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    17I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says the LORD.

  • Lev 26:38
    68%

    38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

  • Deut 28:61
    68%

    61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon you, until you are destroyed.