Leviticus 26:16-39

16So God will send diseases to the people. They will be afraid. The people will have diseases in their eyes. They will get thin and they will die. They will plant their seed and their enemies will eat the fruit.

17God will fight against you. Your enemies will win the war. They will become your rulers. Your soldiers will run away even when nobody is running after them.

18The people may not obey God even after this. If they do not, God will punish them seven times more strongly.

19He will make them ashamed. He will not send any rain and the land will be hard and dry.

20Even if they do a lot of work, no grain will grow. No fruit will grow on the trees.

21The people may still not listen to God. If they do not, he will be seven times more angry. If they do not obey him, he will cause their lives to be seven times more difficult.

22He will send wild animals to kill their children and their animals. The land will be almost empty.

23The people may still not listen to God. If they do not, he will be angry.

24He will become their enemy. If they do not obey him, he will punish them seven times more strongly.

25He will send enemy soldiers to kill the people. They have not done what they promised to do. So he will punish them for that. If they go back to their cities, he will send them diseases. The enemy will win the war.

26The people will not have any food. A woman will bake one loaf for ten families. They will weigh it to give one part to each family. When a person eats his piece of bread, he will still be hungry.

27If the people still turn away from God, he will be even more angry. They will not turn away from their sin.

28So he will turn away from them. He will punish them seven times more again.

29They will be so hungry that they will eat their own children.

30The Lord will destroy the places where they worship false gods. He will destroy their very bad incense altars. He will put their dead bodies round their idols. He will hate them.

31He will destroy the cities. He will destroy the places for wrong worship. Nobody will burn incense to give the Lord pleasure.

32God will destroy the land. He will cause the enemies who live in your land to hate it.

33God will push you out. He will send your people away to other countries. He will destroy your cities. And he will make your land a desert.

34The land will have a Sabbath rest while there are no people in it.

35All the time that it is empty, the land will have rest. It will have the Sabbath rest that it did not have. It did not have it when you lived in it.

36Some of Israel's people will remain in other countries. They will be frightened. A leaf that is blowing in the wind will cause them to run away. It will be like when an enemy is running after them. They will fall even if no enemy is running after them.

37They will fall over each other when nobody is running after them. They will not be strong enough to fight their enemies.

38They will die in the countries where they are living. Those countries will cause their deaths.

39Those who remain here will die because of their sins. They will die because their ancestors did not obey God.