Leviticus 26:14–33

Reject His Statutes and He Will Strike You

¹⁴‘^aBut if you do not obey Me and do not do all these commandments,

¹⁵if, instead, you ^areject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My judgments so as not to do all My commandments and so ^bbreak My covenant,

¹⁶I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a ^asudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the ^bsoul to pine away; also, ^cyou will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

¹⁷‘And I will ¹set My face against you so that you will be ²defeated before your enemies; and ^athose who hate you will have dominion over you, and ^byou will flee when no one is pursuing you.

¹⁸‘If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will discipline you ^aseven times more for your sins.

¹⁹‘I will also ^abreak down your pride of strength; I will also give your sky over to become like iron and your earth like bronze.

²⁰‘^aAnd your power will be spent uselessly, for your land will not give forth its produce and the trees of the land will not give forth their fruit.

²¹‘If then, you ^awalk in hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^bseven times according to your sins.

²²‘^aAnd I will send out among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and cut down your cattle and reduce your number so that ^byour roads lie desolate.

²³‘^aAnd if by these things you do not accept My discipline, but walk in hostility against Me,

²⁴then I will ^awalk in hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you ^bseven times for your sins.

²⁵‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^avengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send ^bpestilence among you so that you shall be given over into enemy hands.

²⁶‘^aWhen I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by rationed weight so that you will ^beat and not become full.

²⁷‘Yet, if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but walk in hostility against Me,

²⁸then ^aI will walk in wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will discipline you seven times for your sins.

²⁹‘Further, ^ayou will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

³⁰‘I then ^awill destroy your high places and cut down your ^bincense altars and give your corpses to lie on the corpses of your idols, for My soul shall loathe you.

³¹‘And I will give your cities over as a ^awaste and will make your ^bsanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^csmell your soothing aromas.

³²‘And I will make ^athe land desolate, ^bso that your enemies who inhabit it will themselves feel desolate because of it.

³³‘You, however, I ^awill scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.