¹⁴“ ‘But^r if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out^s all these commands, ¹⁵and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self^t abhors my regulations, to not carry out^u all my commands by your breaking my covenant, ¹⁶I in turn^v will do this to you: then^w I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed in vain,^x and your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated before^y your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but^z there shall not be anybody who is pursuing^a you.

¹⁸“ ‘And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then^b I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. ¹⁹And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron^c and your land like copper. ²⁰And your strength shall be consumed in vain;^d and your land shall not give its produce, and the land’s trees shall not give their fruit.

²¹“ ‘And if you go against me in hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then^e I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins. ²²And I will send wild animals^f out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate.

²³“ ‘And if you do not accept correction from^g me through these things, but^h you go against me in hostility, ²⁴thenⁱ I myself^j will also go against you in hostility, and I myself^k also will strike you seven times for your sins. ²⁵And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance for the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy. ²⁶At my breaking the supply^l of bread^m for you, thenⁿ ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat it, and you shall not be satisfied.

²⁷“ ‘And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, ²⁸then^o I will go against you in hostile anger, and also^p I myself^q will discipline you seven times for your sins. ²⁹And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. ³⁰And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols’ corpses; and my inner self^r shall abhor you. ³¹And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices’^s appeasing fragrance. ³²And I myself^t will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. ³³And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin.

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Footnotes

rOr “And”
sOr “you do not do” or “you do not observe” or “you do not perform”
tOr “soul”
uOr “do” or “observe” or “perform”
vLiterally “also” or “indeed”
wOr “and”
xLiterally “for the emptiness”
yLiterally “to the faces of”
zOr “and”
aLiterally “who pursues” or “pursuing”
bOr “and”
cOr “iron ore”
dLiterally “to the emptiness”
eOr “and”
fLiterally “the animals of the field”
gHebrew “for” or “to”
hOr “and”
iOr “and”
jEmphatic personal pronoun
kEmphatic personal pronoun
lLiterally “staff”
mOr “food”
nOr “and”
oOr “and”
pOr “surely”
qEmphatic personal pronoun
rOr “soul”
sImplied by the use of the same phraseology in regard to the sacrifices in the early chapters of the book
tEmphatic personal pronoun