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Deuteronomy 28:23

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

KJV

Sit cælum, quod supra te est, æneum : et terra, quam calcas, ferrea.

Vulgate

καὶ ἔσται σοι ὁ οὐρανὸς ὁ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆς σου χαλκοῦς, καὶ ἡ γῆ ἡ ὑποκάτω σου σιδηρᾶ.

LXX

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

ASV

וְ/הָי֥וּ שָׁמֶ֛י/ךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל רֹאשְׁ/ךָ֖ נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וְ/הָ/אָ֥רֶץ אֲשֶׁר תַּחְתֶּ֖י/ךָ בַּרְזֶֽל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
בַּרְזֶל֙
brzl
noun · 76×
ו
v
noun · 505×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
נְחֹֽשֶׁת
nchsht
noun · 140×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? Do you see how excellently he reasons, and proves the resurrection from the fact of Christ's being raised, having first established the former in many ways? For both the prophets spoke of it, says he, and the Lord Himself showed it by His appeari…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 17:1 — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my w
  • 1Kgs 18:2 — And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
  • 2Chr 6:26 — When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
  • Deut 11:17 — And then the LORD’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the L
  • Gen 4:12 — When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
  • Hag 1:10 — Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
  • Jer 3:3 — Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
  • Jer 5:25 — Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.
  • Jer 14:1 — The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
  • Lev 26:19 — And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
  • Lev 26:19 — And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
  • Ruth 1:1 — Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two so
  • Zech 10:1 — Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
  • Zech 14:17 — And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.