Leviticus 26:14-39

New King James Version

¹⁴ ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

¹⁵ and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

¹⁶ I also will do this to you:

I will even appoint terror over you, ^(A)wasting disease and fever which shall ^(B)consume the eyes and ^(C)cause sorrow of heart.

And ^(D)you shall sow your seed ^[a]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

¹⁷ I will ^[b]set ^(E)My face against you, and ^(F)you shall be defeated by your enemies.

^(G)Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall ^(H)flee when no one pursues you.

¹⁸ ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^(I)seven times more for your sins.

¹⁹ I will ^(J)break the pride of your power;

I ^(K)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

²⁰ And your ^(L)strength shall be spent in vain;

for your ^(M)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

²¹ ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

^22 (N)I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;

and ^(O)your highways shall be desolate.

²³ ‘And if ^(P)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

^24 (Q)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

²⁵ And ^(R)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities ^(S)I will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

^26 (T)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, ^(U)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

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

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

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

^29 (V)You^[c] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

^30 (W)I 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.

³¹ I will lay your ^(X)cities waste and ^(Y)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ^(Z)smell the fragrance of your ^[d]sweet aromas.

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

^33 (AB)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

^34 (AC)Then 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.

³⁵ As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your ^(AD)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶ ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send ^(AE)faintness^[e] into 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.

^37 (AF)They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and ^(AG)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸ You shall ^(AH)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹ And those of you who are left ^(AI)shall ^[f]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their ^(AJ)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.