Deuteronomy Chapter 28 verse 23 Holy Bible
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.
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And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.
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And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
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Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
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`And thy heavens which `are' over thy head have been brass, and the earth which `is' under thee iron;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 23, 24. - Terrible drought is here threatened; no rain should fall (cf. Leviticus 26:19); but instead thereof dust, both light as powder and heavy as sand, should fall upon them. The allusion is probably to those clouds of dust and sand which often fill the air in Palestine, when the heat is intense and there has been no rain for a season; the wind then becomes a vehement sirocco, and the air is filled with sand and dust, and is like the glowing heat at the mouth of a furnace (Robinson, 'Bib. Res.,' 2:123; Thomson, 'Land and the Book,' 2:311).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Thy heaven . . . shall be brass, and the earth . . . iron.--Not only in respect of the drought, but of God's refusal to remove it. See Jeremiah 14, 15 for a most pathetic intercession for Israel under this misery, answered by the order, "Pray not for this people for their good" (Jeremiah 14:11). Only grief is permitted (Deuteronomy 28:17). Relief is not given (Deuteronomy 15:1).