^28:22He²⁹ will afflict you with weakness,³⁰ fever, inflammation, infection,³¹ sword,³² blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. ^28:23The³³ sky³⁴ above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. ^28:24The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

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Footnotes

29 Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in .
30 Or perhaps “consumption” (so , , ). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. “wasting”; , “wasting disease”).
31 Heb “hot fever”; “scorching heat.”
32 Or “drought” (so , , ).
33 The reads “Your.” The reads “Heaven will be to you.”
34 Or “heavens” (also in the following verse). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, blight, and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord will strike you with wasting diseases, fever, and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew. These disasters will pursue you until you die. The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron. The Lord will change the rain that falls on your land into powder, and dust will pour down from the sky until you are destroyed.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the sword and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish. And your heavens that are over your heads shall be like bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be like iron. 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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