Leviticus 26:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖י אֶת־גְּא֣וֹן עֻזְּכֶ֑ם וְנָתַתִּ֤י אֶת־שְׁמֵיכֶם֙ כַּבַּרְזֶ֔ל וְאֶֽת־אַרְצְכֶ֖ם כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה׃

Transliteration

And wə-šāḇartî ʾet-gəʾôn ʿuzzəḵem and wə-nāṯattî ʾet-šəmêḵem like ka-barzel and wə-ʾet-ʾarṣəḵem like ka-nəḥušâ.

Grammar Details

• *wə-šāḇartî*: conjunction + Qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will break
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *gəʾôn*: construct state, masculine singular - pride of
• *ʿuzzəḵem*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your strength
• *wə-nāṯattî*: conjunction + Qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will make/set
• *šəmêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your heavens
• *ka-barzel*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - like iron
• *ʾarṣəḵem*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your land/earth
• *ka-nəḥušâ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - like bronze/copper

Word Meanings

• *šāḇartî*: break/shatter/destroy
• *gəʾôn*: pride/majesty/exaltation
• *ʿuzzəḵem*: strength/might/power
• *nāṯattî*: give/put/set/make
• *barzel*: iron
• *nəḥušâ*: bronze/copper

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I will break your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  and will breake the pride off youre strength. For I will make the heaue ouer you as harde as yerne, and youre londe as hard as brasse.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  that I maye breake ye pryde of youre strength, and wyl make youre heauen lyke yron, and youre earth as brasse:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I wil breake the pride of your power, and I will make your heauen as yron, and your earth as brasse:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And wyll breake the pride of your power, and I wyll make your heauen as iron, and your earth as brasse.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:23 : 23 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
• Jer 13:9 : 9 Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
• Jer 14:1-6 : 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are in mourning on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the water; they came to the wells and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain on the earth, the farmers were ashamed, they covered their heads. 5 Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.
• Isa 25:11 : 11 And He will stretch forth His hands in their midst, as he who swims spreads his hands to swim; and He will bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
• Isa 26:5 : 5 For He brings 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.
• Ezek 7:24 : 24 Therefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses; I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled.
• Ezek 30:6 : 6 Thus says the LORD; Those who uphold Egypt will fall; and the pride of her power will come down: from the tower of Syene they will fall by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and His ways just; and those that walk in pride He is able to abase.
• Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day you shall not be ashamed for all your deeds, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you those that rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
• Luke 4:25 : 25 But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine swept throughout all the land;
• 1 Sam 4:3 : 3 And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us, it may save us from the hand of our enemies.
• 1 Sam 4:11 : 11 And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word.
• Isa 2:12 : 12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud and lofty, and upon everyone that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low: