I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
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I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Then I will break the pride of your strength, and I will make your heavens like iron and your land like bronze.
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I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
And I wil breake the pride of your power, and I will make your heauen as yron, and your earth as brasse:
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:
and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;
and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as bronze;
I will break your pride in your power. I will make the sky over you like iron and your land like bronze.
Then I will break the pride of your strength, and I will make your heavens like iron and your land like bronze.
and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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.
And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה bronze H5154 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה bronze H5154 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 19 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Leviticus 26:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְשָׁבַרְתִּ֖י אֶת גְּא֣וֹן עֻזְּכֶ֑ם וְנָתַתִּ֤י אֶת שְׁמֵיכֶם֙ כַּבַּרְזֶ֔ל וְאֶֽת אַרְצְכֶ֖ם כַּנְּחֻשָֽׁה
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί συντρίβω ὁ ὕβρις ὁ ὑπερηφανία σύ καί τίθημι ὁ οὐρανός σύ σιδηροῦς καί ὁ γῆ σύ ὡσεί χαλκοῦς
And I will break down the haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as it were brass.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְאֶתְבַּר יָת יְקַר תָּקְפְּכוֹן וְאֶתֵּן יָת שְׁמַיָא דִי עִלָוֵיכוֹן תַּקִיפִין כְּפַרְזְלָא מִלַאֲחָתָא מִטְרָא וְאַרְעָא דִתְחוֹתֵיכוֹן חֲסִינָא כִּנְחָשָׁא מִלְמֶעְבַּד פֵּירִין
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְאִיתְבַּר יַת אִיקַר תְּקוֹף מִקְדָשֵׁיכוֹן וְאֶתֵּן יַת שְׁמַיָא דְעִילַוֵיכוֹן בְּרִידַן הֵי כְפַרְזְלָא דְלָא מְזִיעַ מִן דְלָא לְמַחְתָא לְכוֹן טַלִין וּמִיטְרִין וְאַרְעָא דִתְחוֹתֵיכוֹן הֵי כִנְחָשָׁא דִמְזִיעַ לְמוֹבְדָא פֵּירָהָא
And I will break down the glory of the strength of your sanctuary, and will make the heavens above you obdurate as iron, to yield no moisture, nor send you dew or rain, and the ground beneath you to be like brass to put forth (only) to destroy its fruit.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Leviticus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nᵉchûwshâh (“bronze”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Leviticus 26:19 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.