Leviticus 26:27–45

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.

³⁴‘^aThen the land will make up for its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, and you will be in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and make up for its sabbaths.

³⁵‘All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

³⁶‘As for those of you who may remain, I will also bring ^aweakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee ¹as though from the sword, and they will fall.

³⁷‘^aThey will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength ¹to stand up before your enemies.

³⁸‘But ^ayou will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.

³⁹‘^aSo those of you who may remain will rot away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.

⁴⁰‘^aIf they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also how they walked in hostility against Me—

⁴¹I also was walking in hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—^aor if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that ^bthey then make up for their iniquity,

⁴²then I will remember ^aMy covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also ^bMy covenant with Isaac and ^cMy covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.

⁴³‘^aFor the land will be forsaken by them and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making up for their iniquity ¹because they rejected My judgments and their ^bsoul loathed My statutes.

⁴⁴‘Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so ^aloathe them as ^bto bring an end to them, ^cbreaking My covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

⁴⁵‘But I will remember for them the ^acovenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that ^bI might be their God. I am Yahweh.’”