 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1848 - 876 pages
...be imagined! But that saying was true of them which had its primary reference to another race, ' The heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.' ' I looked up,' he writes, ' to the heavens all round me, to see if the sky was overcast, that I might... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Education - 1960 - 634 pages
...himself, dated April 9, 1884. 363:3-5. In "Heinrich Heine" (1863), Prose Works, ed. Super, HI, 113. "Thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass,...and the earth that is under thee shall be iron."— Deuteronomy 28:13. .'I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass."— Leviticus 26:19.... | |
 | John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 568 pages
...the sins of the people. Deuteronomy 28:23,24 warned that if the people forsook the Lord God, then, "Thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee,... | |
 | Neil V. Salzman - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 500 pages
...this time, Robins was obsessed by quotations from Scripture, what he called the "texts of TERROR." And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron, and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shalt fear day and night, and shall have none... | |
 | David Daniell - Religion - 1992 - 700 pages
...burning, weathering, with smiting and blasting. And they shall follow thee, until thou perish. And the heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee, iron. And the Lord shall turn the rain of the land unto powder and dust: even from heaven they shall... | |
 | Plinio Prioreschi - Medical - 1996 - 569 pages
...thee... The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with...with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.44 When Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because he married the Ethiopian woman, "the anger... | |
 | Narcissa Prentiss Whitman - History - 1997 - 288 pages
...of the day, reveals her thorough knowledge of the Bible. The verse in the King James version reads: "And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron." 12 The servicebeny is common to Idaho. The fruit is a juicy, full-flavored berry. The Indians used... | |
 | John Webster - Drama - 1997 - 196 pages
...Old Testament, pronounced upon those who 'will not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy god': 'the heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron'. Sulphur, which here takes the place of iron', is associated with hell (cf., for example, Lear, IV.... | |
 | Jewish Publication Society - Religion - 1996 - 406 pages
...thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with drought, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish :'And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.... | |
 | Ya'acov Agam - Religion - 1993 - 688 pages
...it. The LORD shall smite 22 thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with...mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be 23 brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.... | |
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And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 
