New American Standard Bible 2020
Leviticus 26:15-44
15if, instead, you 1reject My statutes, and if your soul loathes My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, but rather to 2break My covenant, 16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will 3summon a 4sudden terror against you, consumption and fever that will make the eyes fail and the 5soul languish; also, 6you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it. 17And I will set My face against you so that you will be defeated before your enemies; and 7those who hate you will rule over you, and 8you will flee when no one is pursuing you. 18If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you 9seven times more for your sins. 19I will also 10break down your pride of power; and I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. 2011Your strength will be consumed uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
21‘Yet if you 1213show hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you 14seven times according to your sins. 2215I will also let loose among you the animals of the field, which will deprive you of your children and eliminate your cattle, and reduce your number so that 16your roads become deserted.
23‘17And if by these things you do not learn your lesson regarding Me, but you show hostility toward Me, 24then I in turn will 18show hostility toward you; and I, even I, will strike you 19seven times for your sins. 25I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute 20vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send a 21plague among you, so that you will be handed over to the enemy. 2622When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread 23in rationed amounts, so that you will 24eat and not be satisfied.
27‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, 28then 25I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins. 29Further, 26you will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters. 30I then 27will destroy your high places, and cut down your 28incense altars, and 29pile your 30remains on the 31remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you. 31I will turn your cities into 32ruins as well and make your 33sanctuaries desolate, and I will not 34smell your soothing aromas. 32And I will make 35the land desolate 36so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled at it. 33You, however, I 37will scatter among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become ruins.
34‘38Then the land will restore its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and restore its Sabbaths. 35All the days of its desolation it will have the rest which it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it. 36As for those among you who are left, I will also bring 39despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a scattered leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee 40as though from the sword, and they will fall. 3741They will then stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand before your enemies. 38Instead, 42you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you. 3943So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their wrongdoing in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the wrongdoing of their forefathers they will rot away with them.
40‘But 44if they confess their wrongdoing and the wrongdoing 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--45or if their uncircumcised heart is humbled so that 46they then make amends for their wrongdoing, 42then I will remember 47My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also 48My covenant with Isaac, and 49My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. 4350For the land will be abandoned by them, and will restore its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their wrongdoing, 51because they rejected My ordinances and their 52soul loathed 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 53loathe them as 54to destroy them, 55breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God.
Notes
- 1. Leviticus 26:15 Lev 26:11; 2 Kin 17:15 ↩
- 2. Leviticus 26:15 Lev 26:9 ↩
- 3. Leviticus 26:16 Or impose...on you ↩
- 4. Leviticus 26:16 Deut 28:22; Ps 78:33 ↩
- 5. Leviticus 26:16 1 Sam 2:33; Ezek 24:23; 33:10 ↩
- 6. Leviticus 26:16 Judg 6:3-6; Job 31:8 ↩
- 7. Leviticus 26:17 Ps 106:41 ↩
- 8. Leviticus 26:17 Lev 26:36, 37; Ps 53:5; Prov 28:1 ↩
- 9. Leviticus 26:18 Lev 26:21, 24, 28 ↩
- 10. Leviticus 26:19 Is 28:1-3; Ezek 24:21 ↩
- 11. Leviticus 26:20 Ps 127:1; Is 17:10, 11; 49:4; Jer 12:13 ↩
- 12. Leviticus 26:21 Lit walk with Me hostilely, and so throughout the ch ↩
- 13. Leviticus 26:21 Lev 26:23, 27, 40 ↩
- 14. Leviticus 26:21 Lev 26:18 ↩
- 15. Leviticus 26:22 2 Kin 17:25 ↩
- 16. Leviticus 26:22 Judg 5:6 ↩
- 17. Leviticus 26:23 Lev 26:21; Jer 5:3 ↩
- 18. Leviticus 26:24 Lev 26:28, 41 ↩
- 19. Leviticus 26:24 Lev 26:21 ↩
- 20. Leviticus 26:25 Jer 50:28; 51:11 ↩
- 21. Leviticus 26:25 Num 14:12 ↩
- 22. Leviticus 26:26 Is 3:1; Ezek 4:16, 17; 5:16 ↩
- 23. Leviticus 26:26 Lit by weight ↩
- 24. Leviticus 26:26 Mic 6:14 ↩
- 25. Leviticus 26:28 Lev 26:24, 41; Is 59:18 ↩
- 26. Leviticus 26:29 2 Kin 6:29 ↩
- 27. Leviticus 26:30 2 Kin 23:20; Ezek 6:3, 6; Amos 7:9 ↩
- 28. Leviticus 26:30 2 Chr 34:4, 7; Is 27:9 ↩
- 29. Leviticus 26:30 Lit give ↩
- 30. Leviticus 26:30 Lit corpses ↩
- 31. Leviticus 26:30 Lit corpses ↩
- 32. Leviticus 26:31 Neh 2:3; Jer 44:2, 6, 22 ↩
- 33. Leviticus 26:31 Is 63:18; Lam 2:7 ↩
- 34. Leviticus 26:31 Amos 5:21 ↩
- 35. Leviticus 26:32 Jer 9:11; 12:11; 25:11; 33:10 ↩
- 36. Leviticus 26:32 Jer 18:16; 19:8 ↩
- 37. Leviticus 26:33 Deut 4:27; 28:64; Ps 44:11; 106:27; Jer 31:10; Ezek 12:15; 20:23; Zech 7:14 ↩
- 38. Leviticus 26:34 Lev 26:43; 2 Chr 36:21 ↩
- 39. Leviticus 26:36 Is 30:17; Lam 1:3, 6; 4:19; Ezek 21:7 ↩
- 40. Leviticus 26:36 Lit the flight of the sword ↩
- 41. Leviticus 26:37 Jer 6:21; Nah 3:3 ↩
- 42. Leviticus 26:38 Deut 4:26 ↩
- 43. Leviticus 26:39 Ezek 4:17; 33:10 ↩
- 44. Leviticus 26:40 Jer 3:12-15; 14:20; Hos 5:15 ↩
- 45. Leviticus 26:41 Jer 4:4; 9:25, 26; Ezek 44:7, 9; Acts 7:51 ↩
- 46. Leviticus 26:41 Ezek 20:43 ↩
- 47. Leviticus 26:42 Gen 28:13-15; 35:11, 12 ↩
- 48. Leviticus 26:42 Gen 26:2-5 ↩
- 49. Leviticus 26:42 Gen 22:15-18 ↩
- 50. Leviticus 26:43 Lev 26:34 ↩
- 51. Leviticus 26:43 Lit because and by the cause ↩
- 52. Leviticus 26:43 Lev 26:11 ↩
- 53. Leviticus 26:44 Lev 26:11 ↩
- 54. Leviticus 26:44 Deut 4:31; Jer 30:11 ↩
- 55. Leviticus 26:44 Jer 33:20-26 ↩
Commentaries on Leviticus 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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