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


In Context

20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.

21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.

22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish.

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

24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.

Deuteronomy 28:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:23And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:23Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:23And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:23Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:23And thy heavens which are over thy head have been brass, and the earth which is under thee iron;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:23And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.