Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. New Living Translation I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze. English Standard Version and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. Berean Standard Bible I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, King James Bible And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: New King James Version I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. New American Standard Bible I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. NASB 1995 ‘I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. NASB 1977 ‘And I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. Legacy Standard Bible I will also break down your pride of strength; I will also give your sky over to become like iron and your earth like bronze. Amplified Bible I will break your pride in your power, and I will make your sky like iron [giving no rain and blocking all prayers] and your ground like bronze [hard to plow and yielding no produce]. Christian Standard Bible I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, Holman Christian Standard Bible I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, American Standard Version And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass; Contemporary English Version until your pride is completely crushed. I will hold back the rain, so the sky above you will be like iron, and the ground beneath your feet will be like copper. English Revised Version And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: GOD'S WORD® Translation I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement. Good News Translation I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron. International Standard Version I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground like bronze. Majority Standard Bible I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, NET Bible I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. New Heart English Bible I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze; Webster's Bible Translation And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: World English Bible I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze; Young's Literal Translation and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass; Smith's Literal Translation And I broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd I will break the pride of your stubbornness, and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass: Catholic Public Domain Version And I will crush the pride in your hardness, and I will give to you heaven above like iron, and the earth below like brass. New American Bible to break your proud strength. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze, New Revised Standard Version I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven like iron and your earth like brass; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And I shall break the magnificence of your strength and I shall make your skies like iron and your ground like brass: OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass. Brenton Septuagint Translation And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishments for Disobedience…18And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins. 19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, 20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:23-24 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. / The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.” Isaiah 28:1-4 Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine. / Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground. / The majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot. ... Jeremiah 14:1-6 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: / “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. / The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads. ... Ezekiel 7:24 So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned. Ezekiel 22:14 Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act. Amos 4:7-8 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. / People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. Haggai 1:10-11 Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. / I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.” 2 Chronicles 7:13 If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, Psalm 107:33-34 He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground, / and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. Isaiah 9:9-10 All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: / “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.” Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’? Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent. Jeremiah 6:15 Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD. Ezekiel 16:49-50 Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy. / Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen. Treasury of Scripture And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: will break 1 Samuel 4:3,11 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies… Isaiah 2:12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: Isaiah 25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands. make Deuteronomy 28:23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron. 1 Kings 17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. Jeremiah 14:1-6 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth… Jump to Previous Arrogance Beneath Brass Broken Bronze Earth Ground Heaven Heavens Iron Power Pride Sky Soil Strength StubbornJump to Next Arrogance Beneath Brass Broken Bronze Earth Ground Heaven Heavens Iron Power Pride Sky Soil Strength StubbornLeviticus 26 1. Of idolatry2. Reverence 3. A blessing to those who keep the commandments 14. A curse to those who break them 40. God promises to remember those who repent I will break down The phrase "I will break down" signifies a divine intervention where God actively dismantles or destroys something. In Hebrew, the root word used here is "שָׁבַר" (shabar), which means to break, shatter, or destroy. This conveys the seriousness of God's response to disobedience. It is a reminder of God's sovereignty and His ability to humble those who exalt themselves against His will. The imagery of breaking down suggests a complete and thorough action, leaving no room for resistance. your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze I will make your heaven as iron.--That is, the heaven which is over them shall yield no more rain than if it were of metal. In Deuteronomy 28:23, where the same punishment is threatened, and the same figure is used, the metals are reversed, the heaven is brass, and the earth iron. . . . Hebrew I will break downוְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖י (wə·šā·ḇar·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces your stubborn עֻזְּכֶ֑ם (‘uz·zə·ḵem) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 5797: Strength, might pride גְּא֣וֹן (gə·’ō·wn) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1347: Arrogance, majesty, ornament and make וְנָתַתִּ֤י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set your sky שְׁמֵיכֶם֙ (šə·mê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky like iron כַּבַּרְזֶ֔ל (kab·bar·zel) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1270: Iron, an iron implement and your land אַרְצְכֶ֖ם (’ar·ṣə·ḵem) Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 776: Earth, land like bronze, כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה׃ (kan·nə·ḥu·šāh) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5154: Copper, bronze Links Leviticus 26:19 NIVLeviticus 26:19 NLT Leviticus 26:19 ESV Leviticus 26:19 NASB Leviticus 26:19 KJV Leviticus 26:19 BibleApps.com Leviticus 26:19 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 26:19 Chinese Bible Leviticus 26:19 French Bible Leviticus 26:19 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 26:19 I will break the pride of your (Le Lv Lev.) |
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