¹⁶then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever^s that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.^t You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.^u ¹⁷I will set my face^v against you so that you will be defeated^w by your enemies;^x those who hate you will rule over you,^y and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.^z

¹⁸“ ‘If after all this you will not listen to me,^a I will punish^b you for your sins seven times over.^c ¹⁹I will break down your stubborn pride^d and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.^e ²⁰Your strength will be spent in vain,^f because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.^g

²¹“ ‘If you remain hostile^h toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,ⁱ as your sins deserve. ²²I will send wild animals^j against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few^k in number that your roads will be deserted.^l

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Cross references

s Dt 28:22, 35; Ps 78:33
tver 39; 1 Sa 2:33; Ps 107:17; Eze 4:17; 24:23; 33:10
u Jdg 6:3–6; Job 31:8
v Lev 17:10; Eze 15:7
w Dt 28:48; Jos 7:12; Jdg 2:15; 1 Ki 8:33; 2 Ch 6:24
x Jos 7:4; Jer 19:7; 21:7
y Ps 106:41
zver 36, 37; Dt 28:7, 25; Ps 53:5; Pr 28:1; Isa 30:17
aver 14
b Ps 99:8; Jer 21:14; Am 3:14
cver 21
d Ps 10:4; 73:6; Isa 16:6; 25:11; 28:1–3; Jer 13:9; 48:29; Eze 24:21; Am 6:8; Zep 3:11
e Dt 28:23; Job 38:38
f Dt 28:38; Ps 127:1; Isa 17:11; 49:4; Jer 12:13; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6
g Dt 11:17; 28:24
hver 41
iver 18; See Ge 4:15
jSee Ge 37:20
k Dt 28:62; Jer 42:2
l Jer 5:6; 14:16; 15:3; 16:4; Eze 14:15