Leviticus 26:12-38

¹²I shall go among you, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be a people to me.

¹³I am your Lord God, that led you out of the land of Egyptians, that ye should not serve them, and I have broken the chains off your nolls, that ye should go upright.

¹⁴That if ye hear not me, neither do all my behests,

¹⁵and if ye forsake my laws, and despise my dooms, that ye do not those things that be ordained of me, and that ye bring follily my covenant to nought,

¹⁶also I shall do these things to you; I shall visit you swiftly in neediness, and in burning, which shall torment your eyes, and waste your lives; in vain ye shall sow seed, that shall be devoured of enemies;

¹⁷I shall set my face against you, and ye shall fall before your enemies, and ye shall be subjects or be subject to them that hate you; ye shall flee, while no man pursueth you.

¹⁸But if neither so ye obey to me, I shall increase your chastising sevenfold for your sins;

¹⁹and I shall all-break the pride of your hardness, and I shall give to you heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass;

²⁰your travail shall be wasted in vain, neither the earth shall bring forth fruit, neither the trees shall give apples.

²¹If ye go contrary to me, neither will hear me, I shall increase your wounds, either vengeances, till into sevenfold for your sins;

²²I shall send out into you cruel beasts of the field, that shall waste you, and your beasts, and shall bring all things to fewness, and your ways shall be forsaken.

²³That if neither so ye will receive doctrine, either chastising, but go contrary to me,

²⁴also I shall go adversary against you, and I shall smite you seven times for your sins;

²⁵and I shall bring in on you the sword, avenger of my bond of peace; and when ye flee into your cities, I shall send pestilence into the midst of you, and ye shall be betaken in the hands of your enemies,

²⁶after that I have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women shall bake their loaves in one oven, and yield, or deliver, those loaves at weight; and ye shall eat, and ye shall not be fulfilled.

²⁷But if neither by these things ye will hear me, but go against me,

²⁸and I shall go against you in contrary strong vengeance, and I shall chastise you by seven vengeances for your sins,

²⁹so that ye eat the flesh of your sons, and of your daughters;

³⁰I shall destroy your high things, and I shall break your simulacra; ye shall fall betwixt the fallings of your idols, and my soul shall have you abominable,

³¹in so much that I shall turn your cities into wilderness, and make your saintuaries forsaken, neither I shall receive more the sweetest odour;

³²and I shall destroy your land, and your enemies shall be astonied thereon, when they shall be dwellers thereof;

³³forsooth I shall scatter you into folks, or into heathen men, and I shall draw out of the sheath the sword after you, and your land shall be forsaken, and your cities shall be cast down.

³⁴Then his sabbaths shall please the earth, in all the days of his wilderness; when ye be in the land of enemies, it shall keep sabbath,

³⁵and it shall rest in the sabbaths of his wilderness, for it rested not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelled therein.

³⁶And I shall give dread in their hearts, that shall abide of you, in the countries of your enemies; the sound of a leaf flying shall make them afeared, and so they shall flee it as a sword; they shall fall, while none pursueth,

³⁷and all they shall fall upon their brethren, as men fleeing battles; no man of you shall be hardy to against-stand enemies;

³⁸ye shall perish among heathen men, and the land of enemies shall waste you.