Deuteronomy 28:23 “The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.”

Deuteronomy 28:23

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And thine heauen that is ouer thine head, shall be brasse, and the earth that is vnder thee, yron.

Darby Translation

And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.

Young's Literal Translation

'And thy heavens which [are] over thy head have been brass, and the earth which [is] under thee iron;

Bible in Basic English

And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

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Cross references

“And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.”

Leviticus 26:19 Jeremiah 14:1–6 1 Kings 17:1 1 Kings 18:2 Amos 4:7

Leviticus 26:19 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 14:1–6 · BSB

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

1 Kings 17:1 · BSB

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

1 Kings 18:2 · BSB

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

Amos 4:7 · BSB

“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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22The 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.

24The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

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