I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
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I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
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And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 26:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 28:23 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.
- 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
- 1 Samuel 4:11 God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
- Isaiah 25:11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
- Jeremiah 13:9 “Yahweh says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 14:1-6 This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. “Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up. Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads. Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass. The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation.
- Ezekiel 30:6 “ ‘Yahweh says: “They also who uphold Egypt will fall. The pride of her power will come down. They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Daniel 4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
- Zephaniah 3:11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.
- Luke 4:25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
- 1 Samuel 4:3 When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out of the hand of our enemies.”
- Isaiah 2:12 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
- Isaiah 26:5 For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.
- Ezekiel 7:24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Ye shall have drought and barrenness, Hag. 1:10.
Ye shall have drought and barrenness, Hag. 1:10.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 26:19 And I will break the pride of…
Lev 26:19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Ver. 19. Your heaven as iron.] Hard hearts make hard times.
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“ En quia iam nobis sint ferrea pectora, reddit
Coelum etiam nobis durius aere Deus.
Et quia iam nummos gignant pro faenore nummi:
Ante ferax tellus desinit esse ferax. ”{ a}
{a} Bill. Anthol., lib. ii.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The pride of your power, i.e. your strength, of…
The pride of your power, i.e. your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary.
Your earth as brass; the heavens shall yield you no rain, nor the earth fruits.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And your strength shall be spent in vain,.... In…
And your strength shall be spent in vain,.... In endeavouring to till the ground, to plough, or sow, or to dig about the vines or olives, and prune them:
for your land shall not yield its increase; produce corn, and bring forth grass, the one for the use of men, the other for the use of the cattle, and therefore both must starve:
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neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits; such as vines, olives, figs, pomegranates, &c. which were very plentiful in the land of Judea, and on which they much lived, and on which their more comfortable subsistence at least depended, see Hab 3:17; all this is the reverse of Lev 26:4.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Lev 26:19-20. The pride of your power — That…
Lev 26:19-20. The pride of your power — That is, your strength, of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron — The heavens shall yield you no rain, nor the earth, fruits. Your strength shall be spent in vain — In ploughing, and sowing, and tilling the ground.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain As brass (æneam). "Brazen," without moisture, and barren. (Onkelos)
As brass (æneam). "Brazen," without moisture, and barren. (Onkelos)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain I will make your heaven as iron, and your…
I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass--No figures could have been employed to convey a better idea of severe and long-continued famine.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19, 20. Pride of… power — The conceit of…
19, 20. Pride of… power — The conceit of national puissance, which is so unlike the spirit of dependence and humility, must be eradicated by painful methods.
Heaven as iron — The rain promised to the obedient shall be withheld from the disobedient. See Lev_26:4, note.
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Earth as brass — Through lack of water the fields will be as void of herbage as if metallic.
They shall yield no increase under the divine curse, in amazing contrast to the plethoric garners promised in Lev_26:4-5. In respect to spiritual good, the same contrast exists now between those who distrust and those who fully believe the promise of the Father respecting the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. the pride of your power] the pride with…
19. the pride of your power] the pride with which ye rely upon your prosperity and the fruitfulness of your land. The expression is found elsewhere only in Ezekiel, where in Eze_7:24 LXX., Eze_24:21, Eze_33:28 it refers to the fall of the nation and the destruction of Jerusalem; in Eze_30:6; Eze_30:18, the phrase is applied to Egypt.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) And I will break the pride of your…
(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 Lev_26:4-5, as is evident from what follows immediately, where the punishment is threatened against the resources of this power or wealth. Comp. Eze_30:6; Eze_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 Eze_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 Deu_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.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 26:19-20 If God withholds rain, the ground will be…
26:19-20 If God withholds rain, the ground will be hard and unproductive.
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