Leviticus 26:19

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

New Heart English Bible

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

18"'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

20and your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:17and the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you.

1 Samuel 4:3When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies."

1 Kings 8:35"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

Isaiah 2:12For there will be a day of the Lord of hosts for all that is proud and haughty,and for all that is lifted up;and it shall be brought low:

Isaiah 26:5For 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 14:1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning 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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