Leviticus 26:27–45

²⁷“ ‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me^s but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁸then in my anger^t I will be hostile^u toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.^{v 29}You will eat^w the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.^{x 30}I will destroy your high places,^y cut down your incense altars^z and pile your dead bodies^b on the lifeless forms of your idols,^a and I will abhor^b you. ³¹I will turn your cities into ruins^c and lay waste^d your sanctuaries,^e and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.^{f 32}I myself will lay waste the land,^g so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.^{h 33}I will scatterⁱ you among the nations^j and will draw out my sword^k and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,^l and your cities will lie in ruins.^{m 34}Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolateⁿ and you are in the country of your enemies;^o then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest^p it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

³⁶“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf^q will put them to flight.^r They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.^{s 37}They will stumble over one another^t as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.^{u 38}You will perish^v among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.^{w 39}Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’^x sins they will waste away.^y

⁴⁰“ ‘But if they will confess^z their sins^a and the sins of their ancestors^b—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹which made me hostile^c toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^d are humbled^e and they pay^f for their sin, ⁴²I will remember my covenant with Jacob^g and my covenant with Isaac^h and my covenant with Abraham,ⁱ and I will remember the land. ⁴³For the land will be deserted^j by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^k my laws and abhorred my decrees.^{l 44}Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,^m I will not reject them or abhorⁿ them so as to destroy them completely,^o breaking my covenant^p with them. I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵But for their sake I will remember^q the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt^r in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’ ”