Leviticus 26:19
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;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall break the magnificence of your strength and I shall make your skies like iron and your ground like 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will break the pride of your stubbornness, and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass:

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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.

Literal Standard Version
and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze;

Majority Standard Bible
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

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,

NET Bible
I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

New Revised Standard Version
I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper.

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.

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;

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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
1 Kings 8:35
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

Isaiah 28:1
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.

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 13:9
"This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 24:21
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.'


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…

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(19) And I will break the pride of your power.--That is, the strength which is the cause of your pride, the wealth which they derive from the abundant harvests mentioned in Leviticus 26:4-5, as is evident from what follows immediately, where the punishment is threatened against the resources of this power or wealth. Comp. Ezekiel 30:6; Ezekiel 33:28.) The authorities during the second Temple, however, took the phrase "the pride of your power" to denote the sanctuary, which is called "the pride of your power" in Ezekiel 24:21. the expression used here, but the identity of which is obliterated in the Authorised Version by rendering the phrase "the excellency of your strength." Hence the Chaldee Versions paraphrase it, "And I will break down the glory of the strength of your sanctuary."

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. . . .

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will break down
וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖י (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


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