²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

¹⁹ And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

² So Elijah went to let Ahab see him. Now there was no food to be had in Samaria.

¹ The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

² Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.

³ Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

⁴ Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

⁵ And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.

⁶ And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

⁷ And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.