¹⁸‘And if unto these ye hearken not to Me,—then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins; ¹⁹and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass; ²⁰and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

²¹‘And if ye walk with Me in opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins, ²²and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

²³‘And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁴then I have walked—I also—with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins; ²⁵and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy.

²⁶‘In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied.

²⁷‘And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, ²⁸then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

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