Leviticus 26:25-46

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.

40Your sons and your grandsons must tell me, the Lord, that they are sorry. They must be sorry because they did not obey my rules. They must be sorry that they turned away from me.

41They must remember that they made me angry. They caused me to turn away from them. I am the Lord, and I sent them into their enemies' country. They will be sorry until I have punished them enough.

42Then I will remember my covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I will remember that I gave their land to them.

43Before this, the land will be empty and it will have a rest. My people will pay for the bad things that they did.

44But I, the Lord, will not kill all of them. The people will be living in their enemies' country. Then I will remember them. I will not leave them alone. I will remember my covenant with them. I am the Lord, their God.

45I will remember my covenant with their ancestors that I brought out of Egypt. The people of other nations saw me do this. I am the Lord.’

46These are the rules that the Lord gave to Moses on Sinai mountain. They are his covenant with Israel's people.