Deuteronomy 28:23
The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.
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- Lev 26:19 : 19 I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.
- 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives(whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”
- 1 Kgs 18:2 : 2 So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab.Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
- Jer 14:1-6 : 1 A Lament over the Ravages of Drought This was the LORD’s message to Jeremiah about the drought. 2 “The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem. 3 The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands. 4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands. 5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”
- Amos 4:7 : 7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.
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- Deut 28:24-252 verses83%
24The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Lev 26:19-202 verses81%
19I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.
20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.
- Deut 28:20-223 verses77%
20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.
21The LORD will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.
22He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.
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2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.
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9a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
- Deut 28:33-375 verses74%
33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.
34You will go insane from seeing all this.
35The LORD will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils– from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
37You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.
- Jer 15:12-143 verses73%
12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?
13I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.
14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”
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48instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
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25The bars of your gates will be made of iron and bronze, and may you have lifelong strength.
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17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.
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5The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;
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27It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
- Deut 29:22-232 verses71%
22The generation to come– your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places– will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it.
23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.
- Lev 26:16-172 verses71%
16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
- Deut 28:15-184 verses70%
15Curses as Reversal of Blessings“But if you ignore the LORD your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:
16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
17Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.
18Your children will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
- Deut 28:27-282 verses70%
27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed.
28The LORD will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.
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23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
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24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
- Ezek 22:22-232 verses69%
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 anger on you.’”
23The LORD’s message came to me:
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15There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would.The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
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27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.
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18Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.
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15But in the same way every faithful promise the LORD your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the LORD will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the LORD your God gave you.
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17Instead of bronze, I will bring you gold, instead of iron, I will bring you silver, instead of wood, I will bring you bronze, instead of stones, I will bring you iron. I will make prosperity your overseer, and vindication your sovereign ruler.
- Deut 28:51-522 verses68%
51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
52They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.
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12The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.
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10This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.
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42Whirring locusts will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.
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4You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation.
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17I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD.
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38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
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61Moreover, the LORD will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, until you have perished.