¹⁶ Be careful^(A) that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.^{(B) 17} Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you.^(C) He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain;^(D) the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land^(E) the Lord is giving you.

¹⁷ Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.^(A)

⁶ They have authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy.^(A) They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood^(B) and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.^(C)