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

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

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

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

And I will crush the pride in your hardness, and I will give to you heaven above like iron, and the earth below like brass.

Conteramque superbiam fortitudinis vestrae, ac dabo coelum vestrum sicut ferrum, et terram vestram sicut aes.

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as (i) iron, and your earth as brass:
(i) You shall have drought and barrenness.

And I will break the pride of your power,.... Which the Targum of Jonathan and Jarchi interpret of the sanctuary, which they were proud of, trusted in, and boasted of; but was broke or destroyed, first by Nebuchadnezzar, then by the Romans: but it may rather signify their country, the glory of all lands for its fruitfulness, which for their sins should become barren, as follows; or the multitude of their forces, and the strength of their mighty men of war, in which they put their confidence; it may take in everything, civil and ecclesiastical, they prided themselves with, and had their dependence on, thinking themselves safe on account of them, but should be broken to shivers, and be of no service to them:
and I will make your heaven as iron; so that neither dew nor rain shall descend from thence to make the earth fruitful; but, on the contrary, an heat should be reflected, which would parch it, and make it barren:
and your earth as brass; that the seed could not be cast into it, nor anything spring out of it, for the service of man and beast, so that a famine must unavoidably follow.

I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass--No figures could have been employed to convey a better idea of severe and long-continued famine.

The pride of your power - That is, your strength of which you are proud, your numerous and united forces, your kingdom, yea, your ark and sanctuary. I will make your heaven as iron - The heavens shall yield you no rain, nor the earth fruits.