²³ The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^{(A) 24} The Lord will turn the rain^(B) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

¹⁹ I will break down your stubborn pride^(A) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.^{(B) 20} Your strength will be spent in vain,^(C) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.^(D)

¹⁷ If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship^(A) the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.^(B)

⁶ They have power to shut up the heavens^(A) so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying;^(B) and they have power to turn the waters into blood^(C) and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.