Leviticus 26:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:23 : 23 The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.
  • Jer 13:9 : 9 “I, the LORD, say:‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.
  • Jer 14:1-6 : 1 A Lament over the Ravages of Drought This was the LORD’s message to Jeremiah about the drought. 2 “The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem. 3 The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands. 4 They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands. 5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”
  • Isa 25:11 : 11 Moab will spread out its hands in the middle of it, just as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim; the LORD will bring down Moab’s pride as it spreads its hands.
  • Isa 26:5 : 5 Indeed, the LORD knocks down those who live in a high place, he brings down an elevated town; he brings it down to the ground, he throws it down to the dust.
  • Ezek 7:24 : 24 I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.
  • Ezek 30:6 : 6 “‘This is what the LORD says: Egypt’s supporters will fall; her confident pride will crumble. From Migdol to Syene they will die by the sword within her, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day you will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me, for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast, and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.
  • Luke 4:25 : 25 But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.
  • 1 Sam 4:3 : 3 When the army came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said,“Why did the LORD let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us from the hand of our enemies.”
  • 1 Sam 4:11 : 11 The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives(whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”
  • Isa 2:12 : 12 Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud– they will be humiliated;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 28:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

    23The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

    24The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

  • Lev 26:20-21
    2 verses
    80%

    20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

    21“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

  • Lev 26:14-18
    5 verses
    77%

    14The Consequences of Disobedience“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments–

    15if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant–

    16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

    17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

    18“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

  • Jer 15:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?

    13I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

    14I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”

  • Nah 1:13
    73%

    13And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

  • Isa 60:17
    73%

    17Instead of bronze, I will bring you gold, instead of iron, I will bring you silver, instead of wood, I will bring you bronze, instead of stones, I will bring you iron. I will make prosperity your overseer, and vindication your sovereign ruler.

  • Isa 13:11
    73%

    11I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their sin. I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.

  • Jer 13:9
    73%

    9“I, the LORD, say:‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.

  • Ezek 21:31
    72%

    31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.

  • Lev 26:30-33
    4 verses
    72%

    30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

    31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.

    32I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Lev 26:23-28
    6 verses
    72%

    23“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

    24I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

    25I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.

    26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

    27“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

    28I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

  • Hag 2:17
    72%

    17I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD.

  • Ezek 26:9
    71%

    9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

  • Ezek 22:14
    71%

    14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!

  • Mic 6:13
    71%

    13I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.

  • Isa 13:13
    71%

    13So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.

  • Ezek 32:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    9I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

  • Ezek 22:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can blow on them to melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there and melt you.

    21I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.

    22As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out my anger on you.’”

  • Isa 1:25
    71%

    25I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.

  • Isa 25:12
    71%

    12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.

  • Jer 26:6
    71%

    6If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.’”

  • Hag 1:10
    71%

    10This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

  • Isa 30:14
    71%

    14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”

  • Ezek 16:39
    71%

    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

  • Ezek 13:14
    71%

    14I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the LORD.

  • Deut 11:17
    70%

    17Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the LORD is about to give you.

  • Ps 2:9
    70%

    9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

  • Jer 6:19
    70%

    19Hear this, you peoples of the earth:‘Take note! I am about to bring disaster on these people. It will come as punishment for their scheming. For they have paid no attention to what I have said, and they have rejected my law.

  • Mic 5:11
    70%

    11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

  • Isa 5:6
    70%

    6I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

  • Ezek 26:12
    70%

    12They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.