²³ Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

¹⁹ I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

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

² Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. The famine was sore in Samaria.

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

² Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

³ 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 disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

⁴ Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.

⁵ Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass.

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

⁷ "I also have withheld the rain from you, When there were yet three months to the harvest; And I caused it to rain on one city, And caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, And the piece where it didn't rain withered.