When the heavens are brass?

When it feels like God isn’t listening. But it’s just us. Deuteronomy 28.23 When Christians start talking about how “the heavens are brass”—or bronze, depending on whether they grew up with the King James Version or the New International Version—they’re talking about unanswered prayer. The phrase comes from this verse: Deuteronomy 28.23 KJV And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. But the context of this verse isn’t actually about unanswered prayer at all. It’s about the sort of blight the Hebrews are gonna experience when they dismiss their relationship with God. Moses went into a bit of detail about it, too. Deuteronomy 28.1-24 KWL 1 “If you happen to listen to your L ORD God’s voice, so as to observe and do every command I instructing you about today, your L ORD God will give you power over every country on earth: 2 All these blessings will come to you and overwhelm you, for you listened to your L