Leviticus 26

¹You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar , and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God .

²You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary : I am the Lord.

³If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

⁴then I will give you your rains in their season , and the land shall yield its increase , and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit .

⁵Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest , and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing . And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely .

⁶I will give peace in the land , and you shall lie down , and none shall make you afraid . And I will remove harmful beasts from the land , and the sword shall not go through your land .

⁷You shall chase your enemies , and they shall fall before you by the sword .

⁸Five of you shall chase a hundred , and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand , and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword .

⁹I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

¹⁰You shall eat old store long kept , and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new .

¹¹I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

¹²And I will walk among you and will be your God , and you shall be my people .

¹³I am the Lord your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt , that you should not be their slaves . And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect .

¹⁴But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments ,

¹⁵if you spurn my statutes , and if your soul abhors my rules , so that you will not do all my commandments , but break my covenant ,

¹⁶then 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.

¹⁷I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies . Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.

¹⁸And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins ,

¹⁹and I will break the pride of your power , and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze .

²⁰And your strength shall be spent in vain , for your land shall not yield its increase , and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit .

²¹Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins .

²²And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number , so that your roads shall be deserted .

²³And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

²⁴then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins .

²⁵And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant . And if you gather within your cities , I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy .

²⁶When I break your supply of bread , ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight , and you shall eat and not be satisfied .

²⁷But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

²⁸then I will walk contrary to you in fury , and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins .

²⁹You shall eat the flesh of your sons , and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters .

³⁰And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols , and my soul will abhor you.

³¹And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate , and I will not smell your pleasing aromas .

³²And I myself will devastate the land , so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.

³³And I will scatter you among the nations , and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation , and your cities shall be a waste .

³⁴Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate , while you are in your enemies ’ land ; then the land shall rest , and enjoy its Sabbaths .

³⁵As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest , the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.

³⁶And as for those of you who are left , I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies . The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight , and they shall flee as one flees from the sword , and they shall fall when none pursues .

³⁷They shall stumble over one another , as if to escape a sword , though none pursues . And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies .

³⁸And you shall perish among the nations , and the land of your enemies shall eat you up .

³⁹And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies ’ lands because of their iniquity , and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

⁴⁰But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

⁴¹so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies — if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity ,

⁴²then I will remember my covenant with Jacob , and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham , and I will remember the land .

⁴³But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity , because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes .

⁴⁴Yet for all that , when they are in the land of their enemies , I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God .

⁴⁵But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers , whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations , that I might be their God : I am the Lord.

⁴⁶These are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai .