THEOSISDeuteronomy 28:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The Lord give thee dust for rain upon thy land, and let ashes come down from heaven upon thee, till thou be consumed.
יִתֵּ֧ן יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־מְטַ֥ר אַרְצְךָ֖ אָבָ֣ק וְעָפָ֑ר מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ יֵרֵ֣ד עָלֶ֔יךָ עַ֖ד הִשָּׁמְדָֽךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 28:12The 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.
- Amos 4:11I 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.
- Isa 5:24Therefore 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.
- Job 18:15Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
- Job 18:21These then are the tabernacles of the wicked, and this the place of him that knoweth not God.
- Gen 19:24And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.