Deuteronomy 28:24
Good News Translation
Instead of rain, the LORD will send down duststorms and sandstorms until you are destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD will change the rain of your land into powder, and only dust shall come down upon you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Contemporary English Version
He will send dust and sandstorms instead of rain, and you will be wiped out.

New American Bible
For rain the LORD will give your land powdery dust, which will come down upon you from the heavens until you are destroyed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.

Deuteronomy 28:12 The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it may give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy hands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any one.

Genesis 19:24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Job 18:15-21 Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent. . . .

Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Amos 4:11 I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Context
The Curses of Disobedience
23Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron. 24The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.25The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:17
And the Lord being angry shut up heaven, that the rain come not down, nor the earth yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from the excellent land, which the Lord will give you.

Deuteronomy 28:12
The Lord will open his excellent treasure, the heaven, that it may give rain in due season: and he will bless all the works of thy hands. And thou shalt lend to many nations, and shalt not borrow of any one.

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

Haggai 1:10
Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:

Deuteronomy 28:23
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