And Elijah the prophet, the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.

And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth like brass.

and the Lord be angry with you, and restrain the heavens; and there shall not be rain, and the earth shall not yield its fruit, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land, which the Lord has given you.

May the Lord open to you His good treasure [from out of] the heavens, to give rain to your land in season; may He bless all the works of your hands. So shall you lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.

And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.

The Lord your God shall make the rain of your land dust; and dust shall come down from heaven, until it has destroyed you, and until it has quickly consumed you.

And Gad went in to David and told him, and said to him, Choose [one of these things] to befall you, whether there shall come upon you [for] three years famine in your land; or that you should flee three months before your enemies, and they should pursue you; or that there should be [for] three days mortality in your land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to Him that sent me.

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

And the deer gave birth in the field, and forsook [it], because there was no grass.

Our sins have risen up against us. O Lord, do for us for Your name's sake; for our sins are many before You; for we have sinned against You.

Son of man, if a land shall sin against Me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out My hand upon it, and will break its staff of bread, and will send forth famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it.

The year is completed, and you have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, [see] if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out My blessing upon you, until you are satisfied.

But I tell you truly, [there] were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine all over the land;

These [men] have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls [during] the days of their prophecy; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they wish.

When Your people Israel falls before enemies, because they shall sin against You, and they shall return and confess to Your name, and they shall pray and supplicate in this house,

And if Your people Israel should be put to the worse before the enemy, if they should sin against You, and [then] turn and confess to Your name, and pray and make supplication before You in this house;

When heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall have sinned against You, and [when] they shall pray towards this place, and praise Your name, and shall turn from their sins, because You shall afflict them;

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

and that the Gentiles might glorify God on behalf of His mercy, as it is written: "For this reason I will confess to You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to Your name."

that Your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place which You said, My name shall be there, to hear the prayer which Your servant prays at this place day and night.

And You shall hearken to the prayer of Your servant, and of Your people Israel, which they shall pray toward this place; and You shall hear in Your dwelling place in heaven, and You shall do and be gracious.

Gird yourselves [with sackcloth], and lament, you priests: mourn, you that serve at the altar: go in, sleep in sackcloth, you that minister to God: for the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Alas, Alas, Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as trouble upon trouble.

The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the grain is withered.

To You, O Lord, will I cry; for fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness, and a flame has burnt up all the trees of the field.

Sound the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, proclaim a [solemn] service:

Between the porch and the altar let the priests that minister to the Lord weep, and say, Spare Your people, O Lord, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, lest they should say among the heathen, Where is their God?

When Your people Israel falls before enemies, because they shall sin against You, and they shall return and confess to Your name, and they shall pray and supplicate in this house,

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

Wash, and be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before My eyes; cease from your iniquities;

But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.

I will judge you, O house of Israel, says the Lord, each one according to his way: be converted, and turn from all your ungodliness, and it shall not become to you the punishment of iniquity.

For I desire not the death of him that dies, says the Lord.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God; for the people have fallen through your iniquities.