“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 stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. The second level of curses targets the natural world: the sky like iron (no rain), the ground like bronze (no growth). The agricultural blessings of rain in its season (verse 4) and the ground yielding its crops are reversed into the curse of drought and hardness. The pride broken before the natural world's hardness communicates the covenant's humbling of the community that refused to humble itself before God.
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