Punishments for Disobedience
Leviticus 26:19
In 11 translations
- BSB
- I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
- KJV
- And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
- WEB
- I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
- ASV
- And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;
- LSV
- and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze;
- YLT
- and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;
- DBY
- and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,
- DRC
- 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:
- GNV
- And I wil breake the pride of your power, and I will make your heauen as yron, and your earth as brasse:
- JPS
- And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.
- LXXE
- And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖י אֶת־גְּא֣וֹן עֻזְּכֶ֑ם וְנָתַתִּ֤י אֶת־שְׁמֵיכֶם֙ כַּבַּרְזֶ֔ל וְאֶֽת־אַרְצְכֶ֖ם כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ συντρίψω τὴν ὕβριν τῆς ὑπερηφανίας ὑμῶν· καὶ θήσω τὸν οὐρανὸν ὑμῖν σιδηροῦν, καὶ τὴν γῆν ὑμῶν ὡσεὶ χαλκῆν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- Isaiah 25:11He will spread out his hands within it, as a swimmer spreads his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, despite the skill of his hands.
- Luke 4:25But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
- 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.
- Zephaniah 3:11On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My…
- 1 Samuel 4:11The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
- Ezekiel 30:6For this is what the LORD says: The allies of Egypt will fall, and her proud strength will collapse. From Migdol to Syene they will fall by the sword within her, declares the Lord GOD.
- Jeremiah 14:1–6This 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;…
- Daniel 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
- 1 Samuel 4:3When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go…
- Isaiah 26:5For He has humbled those who dwell on high; He lays the lofty city low. He brings it down to the ground; He casts it into the dust.
- Ezekiel 7:24So 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.
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