Promise of Blessing and Retribution
1 ‘You shall anot make idols for yourselves;
neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;
nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;
for I am the Lord your God.
neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;
nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;
for I am the Lord your God.
3 a‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,
4 athen I will give you rain in its season, bthe land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
5 aYour threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;
you shall eat your bread to the full, and bdwell in your land safely.
you shall eat your bread to the full, and bdwell in your land safely.
6 aI will give peace in the land, and byou shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;
I will rid the land of cevil beasts,
and dthe sword will not go through your land.
I will rid the land of cevil beasts,
and dthe sword will not go through your land.
7 You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.
8 aFive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;
your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
9 ‘For I will alook on you favorably and bmake you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My ccovenant with you.
10 You shall eat the aold harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.
11 aI will set My1 tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
12 aI will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;
I have broken the bands of your ayoke and made you walk upright.
I have broken the bands of your ayoke and made you walk upright.
14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, awasting disease and fever which shall bconsume the eyes and ccause sorrow of heart.
And dyou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
I will even appoint terror over you, awasting disease and fever which shall bconsume the eyes and ccause sorrow of heart.
And dyou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17 I will1 set aMy face against you, and byou shall be defeated by your enemies.
cThose who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall dflee when no one pursues you.
cThose who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall dflee when no one pursues you.
18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you aseven times more for your sins.
19 I will abreak the pride of your power;
I bwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
I bwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20 And your astrength shall be spent in vain;
for your bland shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
for your bland shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
22 aI will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and byour highways shall be desolate.
and byour highways shall be desolate.
23 ‘And if aby these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
24 athen I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And aI will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities bI will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
when you are gathered together within your cities bI will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 aWhen I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, band you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 aYou1 shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 aI will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.
and My soul shall abhor you.
31 I will lay your acities waste and bbring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not csmell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.
32 aI will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33 aI will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
34 aThen the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your asabbaths when you dwelt in it.
for the time it did not rest on your asabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send afaintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 aThey shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;
and byou shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
and byou shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You shall aperish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And those of you who are left ashall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;
also in their bfathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
also in their bfathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
40 ‘But aif they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their auncircumcised hearts are bhumbled, and they caccept their guilt—
if their auncircumcised hearts are bhumbled, and they caccept their guilt—
42 then I will aremember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will bremember the land.
I will bremember the land.
43 aThe land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they bdespised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
they will accept their guilt, because they bdespised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, aI will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;
for I am the Lord their God.
for I am the Lord their God.
45 But afor their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, bwhom I brought out of the land of Egypt cin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:
I am the Lord.’ ”
I am the Lord.’ ”
46 aThese are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel bon Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Verse Comparison: Leviticus 26:3
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American Standard Version
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
Amplified® Bible
If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments and do them,
Contemporary English Version
Faithfully obey my laws,
Darby English Version
If ye walk in my statutes, and observe my commandments and do them,
Good News Bible
"If you live according to my laws and obey my commands,
King James Version
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
New American Standard Bible
`If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,
New International Version
" 'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,
New King James Version
‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
' If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,
Revised Standard Version
"If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,
Young's Literal Translation
`If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done them,
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