And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
Ver. 19. Your heaven as iron.] Hard hearts make hard times.
“ En quia iam nobis sint ferrea pectora, reddit
Coelum etiam nobis durius aere Deus.
Et quia iam nummos gignant pro faenore nummi:
Ante ferax tellus desinit esse ferax. ” a
a Bill. Anthol., lib. ii.