Leviticus 26:16

Leviticus 26:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
• New International Version (NIV)then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
• English Standard Version (ESV)then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Context of Leviticus 26:16

14“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments – 15if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant – I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. 17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you. 18“‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.

Leviticus 26:16 word by word

אַף־אֲנִ֞י אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־זֹּ֣את לָכֶ֗ם וְהִפְקַדְתִּ֨י עֲלֵיכֶ֤ם בֶּֽהָלָה֙ אֶת־הַשַּׁחֶ֣פֶת וְאֶת־הַקַּדַּ֔חַת מְכַלּ֥וֹת עֵינַ֖יִם וּמְדִיבֹ֣ת נָ֑פֶשׁ וּזְרַעְתֶּ֤ם לָרִיק֙ זַרְעֲכֶ֔ם וַאֲכָלֻ֖הוּ אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I also will doעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• this unto you; I will even appointפָּקַדpâqad · to reckon: visitH6485
• over you terrorבֶּֽהָלָהbehâlâh · dismayH928
• consumptionשַׁחֶ֫פֶתshachepheth · wasting diseaseH7829
• and the burning agueקַדַּ֫חַתqaddachath · feverH6920
• that shall consumeכָּלָהkâlâh · to end: destroyH3615
• the eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• and cause sorrowדּוּבdûb · to pineH1727
• of heartנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315
• and ye shall sowזָרַעzâra‛ · to sowH2232
• your seedזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seedH2233
• in vainרִיקrîyq · vainH7385
• for your enemiesאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341
• shall eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398

Cross-references for Leviticus 26:16

• Psalms 109:6Appoint an evil man to testify against him! May an accuser stand at his right side!
• Deuteronomy 28:65Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
• Deuteronomy 32:25The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.
• Job 15:20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.
• Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
• Job 20:25When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.
• Psalms 73:19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
• Isaiah 7:2It was reported to the family of David, “Syria has allied with Ephraim.” They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
• Jeremiah 15:8Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.
• Jeremiah 20:4For the Lord says, ‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword.
• Hebrews 10:31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• Exodus 15:26He said, “If you will diligently obey the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the Lord, am your healer.”
• Deuteronomy 28:21The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.
• Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
• 1 Samuel 2:33Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and will cause you grief. All of those born to your family will die in the prime of life.
• Psalms 78:33So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

Commentaries on Leviticus 26:16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16I will even appoint over you terror, etc. - How dreadful is this curse! A whole train of evils are here personified and appointed to be the governors of a disobedient people. Terror is to be one of their keepers. How awful a state! to be continually under the influence of dismay, feeling indescribable evils, and fearing worse! Consumption, שחפת shachepheth, generally allowed to be some kind of atrophy or marasmus, by which the flesh was consumed, and the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3-45Verses 3-45 As “the book of the covenant” Exodus 23:20-33, so does this collection of laws contained in the Book of Leviticus. But the former passage relates to the conquest of the land of promise, this one to the subsequent history of the nation. The longer similar passage in Deuteronomy Leviticus 26:4 Rain in due season - The periodical rains, on which the fertility of the holy land so much depends, are here spoken of. There are two wet seasons, called…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-39Verses 14-39 After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience by the things they suffer…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-39God punishes his people to change their behavior and restore their relationship with him. He acts like a perfectly righteous and loving parent would with a disobedient child. The punishments, meant to stop rebellious behavior, gradually increase. This gives Israel a chance to repent at any time (Leviticus 26:18–28). Even when Israel faced exile from the land in 722 and 586 BC, God was working to restore them (see, for example, Isaiah 40–66; Jeremiah…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. I will even appoint over you terror--the falling sickness [Patrick]. consumption, and the burning ague--Some consider these as symptoms of the same disease--consumption followed by the shivering, burning, and sweating fits that are the usual concomitants of that malady. According to the Septuagint, "ague" is "the jaundice," which disorders the eyes and produces great depression of spirits. Others, however, consider the word as referring to a scorching…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 26:16

• Ague
• Backsliders
• Blessing
• Consumption
• Contingencies
• Disease
• Disobedience to God
• Fever
• Judgments
• Pestilence
• Punishment
• Reward
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Ague
• Cast
• Chastise
• Enjoy
• Faintness
• Fall
• Heathen
• Jerusalem
• Rid
• Scatter

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