Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And I will break the pride of your power. And I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass,
New American Standard Bible
I will also
King James Version
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Holman Bible
I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
International Standard Version
I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground 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;
Amplified
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].
Bible in Basic English
And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;
Darby Translation
and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,
Julia Smith Translation
And I broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
King James 2000
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze:
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron and your land like copper.
Modern King James verseion
And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven like iron and your earth like bronze.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and will break the pride of your strength. For I will make the heaven over you as hard as iron, and your land as hard as brass.
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 brass;
The Emphasized Bible
So will I break your pomp of power, And will set your heavens as iron, and your land as bronze;
Webster
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 brass;
Youngs Literal Translation
and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;
Themes
Brass » Characterized by » Hardness
Brass » Illustrative of » The earth made barren
Chastisement » Who the lord chastens
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Disobedience to God » Denunciations against
Judgments » Denounced against disobedience
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Pride » Often originates in » Possession of power
Punishment » Design of » To secure obedience
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Famine
Rebellion against God » Punishment for
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
Seven » Miscellany of sevens » The threatened punishment of israel was sevenfold
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Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 26:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
Punishment For Disobedience
18 And if for these things ye will not yet hearken to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. 19 And I will break the pride of your power. And I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass, 20 and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:23
And thy sky that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
Isaiah 25:11
And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim. But [LORD] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.
Jeremiah 13:9
Thus says LORD, After this manner I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 30:6
Thus says LORD: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her power shall come down. From the tower of Seveneh they shall fall in it by the sword, says lord LORD.
1 Samuel 4:3
And when the people came into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has LORD smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of LORD out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out o
1 Samuel 4:11
And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed.
1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Isaiah 2:12
For there shall be a day of LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon 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.
Jeremiah 14:1-6
The word of LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
Ezekiel 7:24
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be profaned.
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 he is able to abase those who walk in pride.
Zephaniah 3:11
In that day thou shall not be put to shame for all thy doings, in which thou have transgressed against me. For then I will take away out of the midst of thee those who rejoice in thy pride, and thou shall no more be haughty in my h
Luke 4:25
But in truth I say to you, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine occurred on all the land.