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23 The heavens over your heads will be like bronze and the earth under your feet like iron.(A) 24 For rain the Lord will give your land powdery dust, which will come down upon you from the heavens until you are destroyed. 25 The Lord will let you be beaten down before your enemies; though you advance against them from one direction, you will flee before them in seven,[a] so that you will become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 28:25 From one direction…in seven: see note on v. 7.

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.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated(C) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,(D) and you will become a thing of horror(E) to all the kingdoms on earth.(F)

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