^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.²⁸^26:17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

^26:18“ ‘If, in spite of all these things,²⁹ you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.³⁰^26:19I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze. ^26:20Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land³¹ will not produce their fruit.

^26:21“ ‘If you walk in hostility against me³² and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction³³ seven times according to your sins. ^26:22I will send the wild animals³⁴ against you and they will bereave you of your children,³⁵ annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population³⁶ so that your roads will become deserted.

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Footnotes

25 Or “I also” (see אַף 6.b).
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 (), .
27 Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.
28 That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.
29 Heb “And if until these.”
30 Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”
31 Heb “the tree of the land will not give its fruit.” The collective singular has been translated as a plural. ., some medieval Hebrew , , , and . have “the field” as in v. 4, rather than “the land.”
32 Heb “hostile with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in v. 24 and 27.
33 Heb “your blow, stroke”; cf. “punishment”; “I will inflict you with seven more disasters.”
34 Heb “the animal of the field.” This collective singular has been translated as a plural. The expression “animal of the field” refers to a wild (i.e., nondomesticated) animal.
35 The words “of your children” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
36 Heb “and diminish you.”