²³ The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^{(A) 24} The Lord will turn the rain^(B) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

Elijah Announces a Great Drought

17 Now Elijah^(A) the Tishbite, from Tishbe^[a] in Gilead,^(B) said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain^(C) in the next few years except at my word.”