I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze.

我必断绝你们因势力而有的骄傲，又要使覆你们的天如铁，载你们的地如铜。

我必粉碎你们因势力而有的骄傲，又要使你们的天坚如铁，地硬如铜。

我必粉碎你们因势力而有的骄傲，又要使你们的天坚如铁，地硬如铜。

我要重挫你们的傲气，使你们头上的天如铁，脚下的地如铜。

我必粉碎你们夸耀的力量；我要使你们的天像铁，你们的地像铜；

我必斷絕你們因勢力而有的驕傲，又要使覆你們的天如鐵，載你們的地如銅。

我必粉碎你們因勢力而有的驕傲，又要使你們的天堅如鐵，地硬如銅。

我必粉碎你們因勢力而有的驕傲，又要使你們的天堅如鐵，地硬如銅。

我要重挫你們的傲氣，使你們頭上的天如鐵，腳下的地如銅。

我必粉碎你們誇耀的力量；我要使你們的天像鐵，你們的地像銅；

我必挫折你們的勢力所驕矜的；使你們的天像鐵、你們的地像銅；

爾恃強之驕傲、我必毀之、並使爾天若鐵、爾地若銅、

爾恃強驕肆、我必毀爾、使爾天地堅若銅鐵、

爾恃力驕傲、我必毀之、使爾卑微、使蓋爾之天如鐵、載爾之地如銅、

I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.

I will break down your stubborn pride. I will make the sky above you like iron, and it will not rain. I will make the ground under you like bronze, and you will not be able to farm it.

and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

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

I will also break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

I will break the pride of your power; I will make your heavens like iron and your earth 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 down your strong pride. I will 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:

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

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

The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.

“ This is what the Lord says: This shows how I will rot away the pride of Judah and Jerusalem.

This message came to Jeremiah from the Lord, explaining why he was holding back the rain:“ Judah wilts; commerce at the city gates grinds to a halt. All the people sit on the ground in mourning, and a great cry rises from Jerusalem.The nobles send servants to get water, but all the wells are dry. The servants return with empty pitchers, confused and desperate, covering their heads in grief.The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are deeply troubled; they, too, cover their heads.Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass in the field.The wild donkeys stand on the bare hills panting like thirsty jackals. They strain their eyes looking for grass, but there is none to be found.”

God will push down Moab’s people as a swimmer pushes down water with his hands. He will end their pride and all their evil works.

Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab,“ As surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives— the God I serve— there will be no dew or rain during the next few years until I give the word!”

After the battle was over, the troops retreated to their camp, and the elders of Israel asked,“ Why did the Lord allow us to be defeated by the Philistines?” Then they said,“ Let’s bring the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. If we carry it into battle with us, it will save us from our enemies.”

He humbles the proud and brings down the arrogant city. He brings it down to the dust.

On that day you will no longer need to be ashamed, for you will no longer be rebels against me. I will remove all proud and arrogant people from among you. There will be no more haughtiness on my holy mountain.

“ Certainly there were many needy widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the heavens were closed for three and a half years, and a severe famine devastated the land.

The Ark of God was captured, and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were killed.

“ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble the proud.”

I will bring the most ruthless of nations to occupy their homes. I will break down their proud fortresses and defile their sanctuaries.

“ For this is what the Lord says: All of Egypt’s allies will fall, and the pride of her power will end. From Migdol to Aswan they will be slaughtered by the sword, says the Sovereign Lord.

For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has a day of reckoning. He will punish the proud and mighty and bring down everything that is exalted.