Leviticus 26:19

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¹⁹I will break down your stubborn pride^(A) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.^(B)

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Deuteronomy 11:17

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¹⁷Then the Lord’s anger^(A) will burn against you, and he will shut up^(B) the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce,^(C) and you will soon perish^(D) from the good land the Lord is giving you.

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1 Kings 8:35

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³⁵“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain^(A) because your people have sinned^(B) against you, and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them,

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1 Kings 17:1

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Elijah Announces a Great Drought

17 Now Elijah^(A) the Tishbite, from Tishbe^[a] in Gilead,^(B) said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain^(C) in the next few years except at my word.”

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Footnotes

1 Kings 17:1 Or Tishbite, of the settlers

1 Kings 17:1 in all English translations

Isaiah 5:6

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⁶I will make it a wasteland,^(A)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns^(B) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain^(C) on it.”