Leviticus 26:19

I will break your self-reliant strength you're so proud of, and make your sky hard as iron and your land hard as bronze.

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In The 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:

In Context

18If after all this you still refuse to obey me, I will move to punishing you seven times over for your sins.

20Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:17or the Lord will become angry with you. He won't send any rain, and the land won't produce any crops, and you will soon die, even in the good land that the Lord is giving you.

1 Samuel 4:3When the Israelite army returned to camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord defeat us before the Philistines today? Let's go and get the Ark of the Lord's Agreement from Shiloh, so that he can accompany us and save us from our enemies.”

1 Kings 8:35If the skies are closed shut and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and if they come back in repentance to you, turning away from their sin because you have punished them,

Isaiah 2:12The Lord has set aside a day when he will deal with the proud and arrogant. He will end all self-glorification, bringing it down.

Isaiah 26:5He brings down those who live so high and mighty; he demolishes the proud city with its high walls, bringing it down to the ground, into the dust.

Jeremiah 14:1This is a message from the Lord that came to Jeremiah regarding the drought:

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 26:15-40

Threatenings. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 And I will set my face… Read the whole commentary →

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