the ground.

Leviticus 26:19, 20
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, . . .

Deuteronomy 28:23, 24
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of brimstone and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Joel 1:19, 20
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. . . .

the plowmen.

Joel 1:11, 17
Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. . . .