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Deuteronomy 28:24

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.

23 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

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.

26 Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

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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 LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
KJV
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
WEB
The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
ASV
Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
DARBY
Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed.
BLB
YHWH will give the rain of your land [to be] dust and powder; from the heavens it shall come down on you, until you are destroyed.
ÅB
Herren skal la støv og sand være det regn han gir ditt land; det skal komme ned over deg fra himmelen, til du blir ødelagt.
OTB
Herren vil gjøre regnet på ditt land til støv og pulver; det vil komme ned fra himmelen inntil du blir ødelagt.
B1930
Herren skal la støv og sand være det regn han gir ditt land; det skal komme ned over dig fra himmelen, til du blir ødelagt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Deuteronomy 28:12

    The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.

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  • Isaiah 5:24

    Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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  • Amos 4:11

    “Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

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  • Job 18:15–21

    Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

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  • Genesis 19:24

    Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

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