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Leviticus 26:16

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26:16I for my part25 will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life.26 You will sow your seed in vain because27 your enemies will eat it.28

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Footnotes

  1. 25 Or “I also” (see אַף 6.b).
  2. 26 Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [], , , “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (), .
  3. 27 Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.
  4. 28 That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I in turn will do this to you: then 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, and your enemies shall eat it.

KJV 1900King James Version

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.