Leviticus 26:11-46

111Moreover, I will make My 2dwelling among you, and My soul will not 3reject you. 124I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. 135I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and 6I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

14‘7But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, 15if, instead, you 8reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so 9break My covenant, 16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a 10sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the 11soul to pine away; also, 12you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. 17I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and 13those who hate you will rule over you, and 14you will flee when no one is pursuing you. 18If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you 15seven times more for your sins. 19I will also 16break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. 2017Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

21‘If then, you 1819act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you 20seven times according to your sins. 2221I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that 22your roads lie deserted.

23‘23And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, 24then I will 24act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you 25seven times for your sins. 25I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute 26vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send 27pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands. 2628When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread 29in rationed amounts, so that you will 30eat and not be satisfied.

27‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, 28then 31I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. 29Further, 32you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. 30I then 33will destroy your high places, and cut down your 34incense altars, and heap your 35remains on the 36remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you. 31I will 37lay 38waste your cities as well and will make your 39sanctuaries desolate, and I will not 40smell your soothing aromas. 32I will make 41the land desolate 42so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it. 33You, however, I 43will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.

34‘44Then the land will 45enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and 46enjoy its sabbaths. 35All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. 36As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring 47weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee 48as though from the sword, and they will fall. 3749They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength 50to stand up before your enemies. 38But 51you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. 3952So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

40‘53If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me-- 41I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies--54or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that 55they then make amends for their iniquity, 42then I will remember 56My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also 57My covenant with Isaac, and 58My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. 4359For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, 60because they rejected My ordinances and their 61soul abhorred My statutes. 44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so 62abhor them as 63to destroy them, 64breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. 45But I will remember for them the 65covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that 66I might be their God. I am the Lord.’”

4667These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the sons of Israel 68through Moses at Mount Sinai.