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.

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

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.

Depart from here eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

And Elijah did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the Brook of Cherith before the Jordan.

And it came to pass after some time, that the brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth.

Arise, and go to Zarephath of the Sidonians; behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to provide for you.

And she went to fetch it; and Elijah cried after her and said, Bring me the morsel of the bread that is in your hand.

And Elijah said to her, Be of good courage, go in and do according to your word; but make me a little cake from it first, and you shall bring [it] out to me, and you shall make [some] for yourself and your children last.

And the woman went and did [so], and did eat, she, and he, and her children.

And it came to pass afterward, that the son of the woman the mistress of the house was sick; and his sickness was very severe, until there was no breath left in him.

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;

Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? Or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.

Why did I come, and there was no man? [Why] did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.

And I will forsake My vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

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.

You went into Bethel and sinned, and you multiplied sin at Gilgal; and you brought your grain offerings in the morning, and your tithes every third day.

And your teeth shall be idle in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.

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.

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.

Will You be as a man asleep, or as a [strong] man that cannot save? Yet You are among us, O Lord, and we are called by Your name; forget us not.

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?

He that covers his own ungodliness shall not prosper, but he that blames [himself] shall be loved.

And when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and shall do judgment and justice, he has kept his soul,

Yet the house of Israel says, The way of the Lord is not right. Is not My way right, O house of Israel? Is not your way wrong?

Cast away from yourselves all your ungodliness in which you have sinned against Me; and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why should you die, O house of Israel?

And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

and he prayed to Him. And He hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that the Lord, He is God.

I will go and return to My place, until they are brought to nought, and [then] shall they seek My face.

In their affliction they will seek Me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for He has torn, and will heal us; He will smite, and bind us up.