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Deuteronomy 28:23

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.

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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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
KJV
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
WEB
Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
ASV
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
DARBY
And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
BLB
And your heavens that [are] over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that [is] under you iron.
ÅB
Himmelen over ditt hode skal være som kobber, og jorden under deg som jern.
OTB
Himmelen over ditt hode vil være bronse, og jorden under deg jern.
B1930
Himmelen over ditt hode skal være som kobber, og jorden under dig som jern.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Leviticus 26:19

    I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

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  • Jeremiah 14:1–6

    This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

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  • 1 Kings 18:2

    So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. The famine was severe in Samaria,

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  • 1 Kings 17:1

    Now 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!”

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  • 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.

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