Leviticus 26:19
Good News Translation
I will break your stubborn pride; there will be no rain, and your land will be dry and as hard as iron.

New Revised Standard Version
I will break your proud glory, and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like copper.

Contemporary English Version
until your pride is completely crushed. I will hold back the rain, so the sky above you will be like iron, and the ground beneath your feet will be like copper.

New American Bible
to break your proud strength. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze,

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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1 Samuel 4:3,11 And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies. . . .

Isaiah 2:12 Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.

Isaiah 25:11 And he shall stretch forth his hands under him, as he that swimmeth stretcheth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down his glory with the dashing of his hands.

Isaiah 26:5 For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.

Jeremiah 13:9 Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.

Ezekiel 7:24 And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary.

Ezekiel 30:6 Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

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Zephaniah 3:11 In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain.

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Deuteronomy 28:23 Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.

1 Kings 17:1 And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.

Jeremiah 14:1-6 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the words of the drought. . . .

Luke 4:25 In truth I say to You, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth.

Context
Punishments for Disobedience
18But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. 19And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass.20Your labour shall be spent in vain: the ground shall not bring forth her increase: nor the trees yield their fruit.…
Cross References
1 Kings 8:35
If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and they, praying in this place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions:

Isaiah 28:1
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine.

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers were withholden, and there was no lateward rain: thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou wouldst not blush.

Jeremiah 13:9
Thus saith the Lord: After this manner will I make the pride of Juda, and the great pride of Jerusalem to rot.

Ezekiel 24:21
Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Leviticus 26:18
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