Leviticus 26
1I AM the Lord your God; you shall not make for yourselves carved or graven images, nor set up a pillar for yourselves, nor place a watch stone in your land to worship it. I am the Lord your God,
2you shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My holy things.
3I am the Lord; if you walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them,
4I will give you rain in its season: and the land shall yield its productions;
5and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit; and the thresher shall overtake the vintager; and the vintager shall overtake the sower; and you shall eat your bread in plenty; and dwell in your land securely, and war shall not pass through your land.
6I will indeed give you peace in your land; and you shall lie down to rest; and there shall be none to make you afraid.
7I will destroy the wild beasts out of your land; and you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you with destruction.
8Even five of you shall pursue an hundred; and a hundred of you shall pursue myriads, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9And I will watch over you, and increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10And you shall eat the last year’s crops, and the crops of the year before, and remove old stores out of the way of new.
11And I will fix My tabernacle among you, and My soul will not abhor you.
12And I will walk about among you, and be your God, and you shall be My people.
13I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt. When you were slaves, I broke the bond of your yoke, and led you out in confidence:
14Now if you will not hearken to Me, nor perform these My commandments,
15but disobey them, and your souls abhor My judgments, so as not to perform all My commandments, so as to break My covenant,
16I will deal with you in this manner—I will send against you distress, and the scab, and the gangrene to eat out your eyes; and wasting consumption; and you shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it:
17and I will set My face against you; and you shall fall before your enemies; and they who hate you shall pursue you; and you shall flee when there is none pursuing you.
18And if for all this you will not hearken to Me, I will proceed to chastise you sevenfold for your offences,
19and break the haughtiness of your pride.
20I will make the heaven for you as iron, and your land as brass; and your strength shall be spent in vain. The earth shall not yield you its seed, nor shall the trees of the field yield you their fruit.
21And after all these things, if you walk adversely and will not hearken to Me, I will bring sevenfold plagues upon you according to your sins—
22I will send against you the wild beasts of the earth, and they shall devour you, and destroy your cattle; and I will make you few in number, and your highways shall be desolate.
23And if by these things you be not reformed, but walk adversely before Me,
24I also will walk with you in adverse wrath, and smite you sevenfold for your sins—
25I will bring a sword against you to avenge the cause of the covenant; and when you flee to your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
26In your affliction for want of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight and you shall eat, but shall not be satisfied.
27And if for these things you will not hearken to Me, but walk adversely before Me,
28I also will walk with you in adverse ire, and chastise you sevenfold, according to your sins.
29And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters also you shall eat:
30and I will lay waste your pillars, and utterly destroy your carved images of wood, and cast your mangled limbs among the mangled limbs of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
31And I will lay waste your cities, and make your sanctuaries a desolation, and no longer be regaled with the smell of your sacrifices.
32I will also make your land a desolation, and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
33And I will scatter you among the nations, and a sword shall overtake and consume you. And your land shall be a waste, and your cities a desolation.
34And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths,
35which it did not keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein.
36And upon those of you who are left, I will bring a slavery, which shall reach their very hearts, in the land of their enemies. The sound of a leaf driven by the wind will scare them; and they shall flee like those who flee from a battle, and shall fall when none pursueth.
37And brother shall overlook brother as in a battle, though none attacketh; and you shall not be able to withstand your enemies.
38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.
39And those of you who are left shall pine away for their sins, and for the sins of their fathers—In the land of their enemies they shall pine away,
40and confess their sins and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed, and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me,
41and I have walked with them in vengeful ire. When I am destroying them in the land of their enemies, then will their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then will they bear their sins with humble submission;
42whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the covenant with Abraham, and remember the land.
43When the land shall be forsaken by them, and when the land shall have enjoyed its sabbaths by being made a waste on their account, and they have borne their iniquities because they neglected my judgments, and in their hearts abhorred my statutes,
44(as I did not, when they were in their enemies’ country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God)
45then will I remember the covenant with them—that old covenant when I brought them out of the land of Egypt—out of the house of bondage, to be their God.
46I am the Lord: These are My judgments, and these are My statutes, and this is the law which the Lord hath given between Himself and the children of Israel, at mount Sina, by the ministration of Moses.