Deuteronomy 11:17

17then athe anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he bwill shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and cyou will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

2 Chronicles 6:26-28

26 d“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict
Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew answer
them,
27 fthen hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way
Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate (compare 1 Kings 8:36); Hebrew toward the good way
in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

28 hIf there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,

Job 11:10

10If he ipasses through and jimprisons
and summons the court, who can kturn him back?

Job 12:14

14If he tears down, none can rebuild;
if he lshuts a man in, none can open.

Psalms 107:34

34 ma fruitful land into a salty waste,
because of the evil of its inhabitants.

Luke 4:25

25But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when nthe heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,

Revelation of John 3:7

To the Church in Philadelphia

7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of othe holy one, pthe true one, qwho has the key of David, rwho opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

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