Deuteronomy 28:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:19 : 19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
  • 1 Kgs 18:2 : 2 Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was sore in Samaria.
  • Jer 14:1-6 : 1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2 Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. 4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. 5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.

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  • Deut 28:24-25
    2 verses
    83%

    24Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

    25Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Lev 26:19-20
    2 verses
    81%

    19I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

    20and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

  • Deut 28:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

    21Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

    22Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

  • Job 28:2
    74%

    2Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is smelted out of the ore.

  • Deut 8:9
    74%

    9a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, 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 ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you don't know 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.

    35Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

    36Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.

    37You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.

  • Jer 15:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

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

    14I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.

  • Deut 28:48
    73%

    48therefore shall you serve your enemies whom Yahweh 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 on your neck, until he have destroyed you.

  • Deut 33:25
    73%

    25Your bars shall be iron and brass; As your days, so shall your strength be.

  • Deut 11:17
    72%

    17and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.

  • Job 28:5
    71%

    5As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

  • Job 41:27
    71%

    27He counts iron as straw; And brass as rotten wood.

  • Deut 29:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22The generation to come, your children who shall 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 with which Yahweh has made it sick;

    23[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • Lev 26:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

    17I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

  • Deut 28:15-18
    4 verses
    70%

    15But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on 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 kneading-trough.

    18Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • Deut 28:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

    28Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;

  • Isa 30:23
    70%

    23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures;

  • Job 20:24
    69%

    24He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow 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 the midst of it; and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.

    23The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Nah 3:15
    69%

    15There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

  • Job 20:27
    69%

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

  • Isa 28:18
    69%

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

  • Josh 23:15
    69%

    15It shall happen, that as all the good things are come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so will Yahweh bring on you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Isa 60:17
    69%

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

  • Deut 28:51-52
    2 verses
    68%

    51and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

    52They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Deut 28:12
    68%

    12Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

  • Hag 1:10
    68%

    10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

  • Deut 28:42
    68%

    42All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

  • Isa 29:4
    68%

    4You 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 of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

  • Hag 2:17
    68%

    17I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.

  • Lev 26:38
    68%

    38You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will 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 Yahweh bring on you, until you are destroyed.