2 Chronicles 6:26
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26 “When the (A)heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
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Deuteronomy 28:23
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23 And (A)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
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Deuteronomy 11:17
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17 lest (A)the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He (B)shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and (C)you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
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Leviticus 26:19
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19 I will (A)break the pride of your power;
I (B)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
Revelation 11:6
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6 These (A)have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
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Amos 4:4-9
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4 “Come(A) to Bethel and transgress,
At (B)Gilgal multiply transgression;
(C)Bring your sacrifices every morning,
(D)Your tithes every three [a]days.
5 (E)Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
Proclaim and announce (F)the freewill offerings;
For this you love,
You children of Israel!”
Says the Lord God.
Israel Did Not Accept Correction
6 “Also I gave you [b]cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
(G)Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
7 “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
9 “I(H) blasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
(I)The locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:4 Or years, Deut. 14:28
- Amos 4:6 Hunger
Joel 2:15-17
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15 (A)Blow the [a]trumpet in Zion,
(B)Consecrate a fast,
Call a sacred assembly;
16 Gather the people,
(C)Sanctify the congregation,
Assemble the elders,
Gather the children and nursing babes;
(D)Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber,
And the bride from her dressing room.
17 Let the priests, who minister to the Lord,
Weep (E)between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, (F)“Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should [b]rule over them.
(G)Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?’ ”
Joel 1:13-20
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Mourning for the Land
13 (A)Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
14 (B)Consecrate a fast,
Call (C)a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And (D)all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord.
15 (E)Alas for the day!
For (F)the day of the Lord is at hand;
It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
16 Is not the food (G)cut off before our eyes,
(H)Joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed shrivels under the clods,
Storehouses are in shambles;
Barns are broken down,
For the grain has withered.
18 How (I)the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are restless,
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep [a]suffer punishment.
19 O Lord, (J)to You I cry out;
For (K)fire has devoured the [b]open pastures,
And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.
20 The beasts of the field also (L)cry out to You,
For (M)the water brooks are dried up,
And fire has devoured the [c]open pastures.
Hosea 5:15-6:1
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15 I will return again to My place
Till they [a]acknowledge their offense.
Then they will seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
A Call to Repentance
6 Come,(A) and let us return to the Lord;
For (B)He has torn, but (C)He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will [b]bind us up.
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:15 Lit. become guilty or bear punishment
- Hosea 6:1 Bandage
Ezekiel 18:27-32
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27 Again, (A)when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. 28 Because he (B)considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29 (C)Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?
30 (D)“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,” says the Lord God. (E)“Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin. 31 (F)Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a (G)new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? 32 For (H)I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and (I)live!”
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Ezekiel 14:13
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13 “Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its (A)supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.
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Jeremiah 14:1-9
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Sword, Famine, and Pestilence
14 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.
2 “Judah mourns,
And (A)her gates languish;
They (B)mourn for the land,
And (C)the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
3 Their nobles have sent their lads for water;
They went to the cisterns and found no water.
They returned with their vessels empty;
They were (D)ashamed and confounded
(E)And covered their heads.
4 Because the ground is parched,
For there was (F)no rain in the land,
The plowmen were ashamed;
They covered their heads.
5 Yes, the deer also gave birth in the field,
But [a]left because there was no grass.
6 And (G)the wild donkeys stood in the desolate heights;
They sniffed at the wind like jackals;
Their eyes failed because there was no grass.”
7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
Do it (H)for Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.
8 (I)O the Hope of Israel, his Savior in time of trouble,
Why should You be like a stranger in the land,
And like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?
9 Why should You be like a man astonished,
Like a mighty one (J)who cannot save?
Yet You, O Lord, (K)are in our midst,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not leave us!
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 14:5 abandoned her young
Isaiah 50:1-2
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The Servant, Israel’s Hope
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)the certificate of your mother’s divorce,
Whom I have put away?
Or which of My (B)creditors is it to whom I have sold you?
For your iniquities (C)you have sold yourselves,
And for your transgressions your mother has been put away.
2 Why, when I came, was there no man?
Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Indeed with My (D)rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink because there is no water,
And die of thirst.
Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will lay it (A)waste;
It shall not be pruned or [a]dug,
But there shall come up briers and (B)thorns.
I will also command the clouds
That they rain no rain on it.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:6 hoed
Proverbs 28:13
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13 (A)He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
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12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and (A)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He (B)received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh (C)knew that the Lord was God.
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1 Kings 17:1-18
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Elijah Proclaims a Drought
17 And Elijah the Tishbite, of the (A)inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord God of Israel lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall not be dew nor rain (E)these years, except at my word.”
2 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 3 “Get away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 4 And it will be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the (F)ravens to feed you there.”
5 So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and stayed by the Brook Cherith, which flows into the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. 7 And it happened after a while that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
Elijah and the Widow
8 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, 9 “Arise, go to (G)Zarephath, which belongs to (H)Sidon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, indeed a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, that I may drink.” 11 And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12 So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a [a]jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and (I)die.”
13 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me; and afterward make some for yourself and your son. 14 For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ ”
15 So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days. 16 The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke by Elijah.
Elijah Revives the Widow’s Son
17 Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so [b]serious that [c]there was no breath left in him. 18 So she said to Elijah, (J)“What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?”
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- 1 Kings 17:12 Lit. pitcher or water jar
- 1 Kings 17:17 severe
- 1 Kings 17:17 He died.
Luke 4:25
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25 But I tell you truly, (A)many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;
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