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

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

² And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

¹ The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

² Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

³ And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.

⁴ Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.

⁵ Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh `her young', because there is no grass.

⁶ And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

⁷ And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.