Leviticus 26:27–45

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

²⁸then ^aI will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish 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 heap your ¹remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

³¹‘I will ¹lay ^awaste your cities as well and will make your ^bsanctuaries desolate, and I will not ^csmell your soothing aromas.

³²‘I will make ^athe land desolate ^bso that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over 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 ¹enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy 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 be left, I will also bring ^aweakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase 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 be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

⁴⁰‘^aIf they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me—

⁴¹I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—^aor if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that ^bthey then make amends 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 abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, ¹because they rejected My ordinances and their ^bsoul abhorred 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 ^aabhor them as ^bto destroy them, ^cbreaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord 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 the Lord.’ ”