19 And I shall have to break the pride of YOUR strength and make YOUR heavens like iron+ and YOUR earth like copper.

23 Your skies that are over your head must also become copper, and the earth that is beneath you iron.+

6 And I shall set it as a thing destroyed.+ It will not be pruned, nor will it be hoed.+ And it must come up with the thornbush and weeds;+ and upon the clouds I shall lay a command to keep from precipitating any rain upon it.+

12 “Who is the man that is wise, that he may understand this, even the one to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken, that he may tell it?+ On what account should the land actually perish, be actually burned like the wilderness without anyone passing through?”+

4 On account of the soil that has been shattered because there has occurred no downpour upon the land,+ the farmers have become ashamed; they have covered their head.+

7 “‘And as for me, I also withheld from YOU people the downpour when there were yet three months to the harvest;+ and I made it rain on one city, but on another city I would not make it rain. There was one tract of land that would be rained on, but a tract of land on which I would not make it rain* would be dried up.+

11 And I kept calling for dryness upon the earth,* and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine,+ and upon the oil, and upon what the ground would bring forth, and upon earthling man,* and upon domestic animal, and upon all the toil of [the] hands.’”+