Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
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Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
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The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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The LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust; from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 28:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
- Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Amos 4:11 “I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
- Job 18:15-21 There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation. His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above. His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street. He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived. Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
- Genesis 19:24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, out of the air as dust raised with…
Or, out of the air as dust raised with wind.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of…
Deu 28:24 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Ver. 24. Powder and dust.] Which the wind and other things raise in times of drought.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain 1. Thy rain shall be as unprofitable to thy…
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1. Thy rain shall be as unprofitable to thy ground and seed as if it were only so much dust. Or,
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2. Instead of rain shall come nothing but dust from heaven, which being raised and carried up by the wind in great abundance, doth return and fall upon the earth as it were in clouds or showers.
Until thou be destroyed, to wit, by famine, following these great droughts.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The Lord will smite thee with the botch of…
The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt,.... Which some understand of the leprosy, Of that sort of it called "elephantiasis", frequent among the Egyptians; See Gill on Lev 13:2. Thevenot (i) relates, that when the time of the increase of the Nile expires, the Egyptians are attended with sharp prickings in their skin like needles. So Vansleb says (k),"the waters of the Nile cause an itch in the skin, which troubles such as drink of them when the river increases. This itch is very small, and appears first about the arms, next upon the stomach, and spreads all about the body, which causes a grievous pain; and not only the river water, but that out of the cisterns drank of, brings it, and it lasts about six weeks.''Though some take this botch to be the botch and blain which the Egyptians were plagued with for refusing to let Israel go, Exo 9:9,
and with the emerods; or haemorrhoids, the piles, a disease of the fundament, attended sometimes with ulcers there; see Sa1 5:9,
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and with the scab and with the itch: the one moist, the other dry, and both very distressing:
whereof thou canst not be healed; by any art of men; which shows these to be uncommon ones, and from the immediate hand of God.
(i) Apud Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 3. p. 426, 427. (k) Relation of a Voyage to Egypt, p. 35, 36.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Dust - Either thy rain shall be as unprofitable…
Dust - Either thy rain shall be as unprofitable to thy ground and seed as if it were only so much dust. Or instead of rain shall come nothing but dust from heaven, which being raised and carried up by the wind in great abundance, returns, and falls upon the earth as it were in clouds or showers.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 24. The rain of thy land powder and…
Verse 24. The rain of thy land powder and dust] As their heavens - atmosphere, clouds, c., were to be as brass-yielding no rain so the surface of the earth must be reduced to powder; and this, being frequently taken up by the strong winds, would fall down in showers instead of rain. Whole caravans have been buried under showers of sand; and Thevenot, a French traveller, who had observed these showers of dust, &c., says, "They grievously annoy all they fall on, filling their eyes, ears, nostrils, &c." - Travels in the East, part 1, book ii., chap. 80. The ophthalmia in Egypt appears to be chiefly owing to a very fine sand, the particles of which are like broken glass, which are carried about by the wind, and, entering into the ciliary glands, produce grievous and continual inflammations.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Consumed. Protestants, "The Lord shall make the rain of…
Consumed. Protestants, "The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven it shall come down upon thee, till thou be destroyed." (Haydock) --- The dust coming instead of rain shall render the land more barren. (Calmet) In those dreary regions, where clouds of sand and dust overwhelm the poor traveller, the Israelites would have a good idea what inconveniences would attend such a state of the atmosphere, if it were only for a short continuance. But when it was intended for destruction, how could they possibly support life!
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the rain of thy land powder and dust--an allusion…
the rain of thy land powder and dust--an allusion probably to the dreadful effects of tornadoes in the East, which, raising the sands in immense twisted pillars, drive them along with the fury of a tempest. These shifting sands are most destructive to cultivated lands; and in consequence of their encroachments, many once fertile regions of the East are now barren deserts.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. The Sirocco (Sherḳiyeh), as the present writer has…
24. The Sirocco (Sherḳiyeh), as the present writer has more than once encountered it in Judaea, brings up a fog of dust as dense and fine as a sea-mist, but very destructive. Until thou be destroyed, see Deu_28:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Powder and dust.—The great desert, which lies on…
(24) Powder and dust.—The great desert, which lies on the eastern frontier of Palestine, makes this only too possible.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 28:24 The only thing even resembling rain would be…
28:24 The only thing even resembling rain would be the swirling dust that coats everything to suffocation.
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