Leviticus 26:27–45

²⁷‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁸then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

^29oYou ⁷shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

^30pI will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

³¹I will lay your ^qcities waste and ^rbring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ^ssmell the fragrance of your ⁸sweet aromas.

^32tI will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

^33uI will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

^34vThen the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

³⁵As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your ^wsabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send ^xfaintness ⁹into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;

the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;

they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

^37yThey shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and ^zyou shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸You shall ^aperish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹And those of you who are left ^bshall ¹waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their ^cfathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

⁴⁰‘But ^dif they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

⁴¹and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their ^euncircumcised hearts are ^fhumbled, and they ^gaccept their guilt—

⁴²then I will ^hremember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will ⁱremember the land.

^43jThe land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;

they will accept their guilt, because they ^kdespised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

⁴⁴Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^lI will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;

for I am the Lord their God.

⁴⁵But ^mfor their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, ⁿwhom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^oin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”