Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

The LORD will change the rain on your land to powder and dust. It will come down from the sky until you are exterminated."

New American Standard Bible

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

King James Version

The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Holman Bible

The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

A Conservative Version

LORD will make the rain of thy land powder and dust. From the sky it shall come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

American Standard Version

Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

Amplified

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down on you until you are destroyed.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete.

Darby Translation

Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah will give the rain of thy land dust and clay: from the heavens shall it come down upon thee, till he destroyed thee.

King James 2000

The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon you, until you be destroyed.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh will change the rain of your land [to] fine dust and [to] sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you {until you are destroyed}.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah shall make the rain of your land powder and dust. It shall come down from the heavens on you until you are destroyed.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the LORD shall turn the rain of the land unto powder and dust: even from heaven they shall come down upon thee, until thou be brought to nought.

NET Bible

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh will cause the rain of thy land to he powder and dust, - out of the heavens, shall it come down upon thee, until thou he destroyed.

Webster

The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou art destroyed.

World English Bible

Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah giveth the rain of thy land -- dust and ashes; from the heavens it cometh down on thee till thou art destroyed.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

the rain
מטר 
Matar 
Usage: 38

of thy land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

H80
אבק 
'abaq 
Usage: 6

and dust
עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Blessings And Curses

23 The sky above your head will become bronze while the ground beneath you will become iron. 24 The LORD will change the rain on your land to powder and dust. It will come down from the sky until you are exterminated." 25 "The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You'll go out against them in one direction, but you'll flee from them in seven directions. Consequently, you'll be in a state of great terror throughout all the kingdoms of the earth.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:12

"The LORD will open his rich treasury, the heavens, to release rain upon your land in season and bless everything you undertake so that you'll lend to many nations but won't borrow.

Genesis 19:24

Then the LORD rained sulfur and fire out of the sky from the LORD on Sodom and Gomorrah,

Job 18:15-21

"There's nothing in his tent that belongs to him; sulfur is scattered all over his dwelling place.

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as flames of fire devour straw, as dry grass collapses in flames, so their root will be rotten, and their blossom will blow away like dust, because they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Amos 4:11

"I overthrew your cities, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You've become like a burning ember, snatched from the fire, but you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.

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