Now Elijah the Tishbite, one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab: “As Adonai God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.”
Leviticus 26:19 - Tree of Life Version I will break your pride of power. I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will break and humble your pride in your power, and I will make your heavens as iron [yielding no answer, no blessing, no rain] and your earth [as sterile] as brass. [I Kings 17:1.] 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; Common English Bible I will destroy your prideful power. I will turn your sky to iron and your land to bronze Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
Now Elijah the Tishbite, one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab: “As Adonai God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.”
“When the skies are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, yet if they pray toward this place and confess Your Name and turn from their sin because You have afflicted them,
For the day of Adonai-Tzva’ot will be against anyone proud and haughty, against anyone lifted up—he will be humbled,
When he spreads his hands in it as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim, his pride will be brought down low together with the trickery of his hands.
For He humbles those dwelling on high, leveling the lofty city, leveling it to the ground, bringing it down to the dust.
Oy , the proud crown of Ephraim’s drunks! Its glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is at the head of the fertile valleys of those overcome with wine!
thus says Adonai: “Just so I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Therefore showers have been withheld and there has been no spring rain. You have a harlot’s brazen look; you refuse to be ashamed.
speak to the house of Israel, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Behold, I will profane My Sanctuary, the pride of your might, the desire of your eyes and the longing of your soul. Your sons and your daughters that you have left behind will fall by the sword.
Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Those who support Egypt will fall. The pride of her power will collapse. From Migdol to Syene they will fall within her by the sword.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
I will make the land a desolation and a horror. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through.’
I will bring the wicked of the nations. They will possess their houses. So I will end the pride of the strong, when their holy places are profaned.
On that day you will not be ashamed because of all your deeds by which you rebelled against Me. For then I will remove from your midst your proud, arrogant ones, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.
But with all truthfulness I say to you, that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was closed for three and a half years and there came a great famine over all the land.
Then the anger of Adonai will be kindled against you, so He will shut up the sky so that there will be no rain and the soil will not yield its produce. Then you will perish quickly from the good land Adonai is giving you.
Your sky above your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
Moreover, the ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons Hophni and Phinehas died.
When the people came back to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did Adonai bring defeat on us today before the Philistines? Let’s fetch the ark of the covenant of Adonai from Shiloh that He may come among us and deliver us from the hand of our enemies.”