¹⁶As a result, I will do this to you: I will cause terrible things to happen to you. I will cause you to have disease and fever that will destroy your eyes and slowly kill you. You will not have success when you plant your seed, and your enemy will eat your crops. ¹⁷I will be against you, and your enemies will defeat you. These people who hate you will rule over you, and you will run away even when no one is chasing you.

¹⁸“ ‘If after all this you still do not obey me, I will punish you seven times more for your sins. ¹⁹I will break your great pride, and I will make the sky like iron and the earth like bronze. ⁿ ²⁰You will work hard, but it will not help. Your land will not grow any crops, and your trees will not give their fruit.

²¹“ ‘If you still turn against me and refuse to obey me, I will beat you seven times harder. The more you sin, the more you will be punished. ²²I will send wild animals to attack you, and they will take your children away from you and destroy your cattle. They will make you so few in number the roads will be empty.

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Footnotes

nsky … bronze This means the sky will give no rain and the earth will produce no crops.