Leviticus 26:19-45

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.

³⁹That if some of these Jews dwell, they shall fail in their wickednesses, in the land of their enemies; and they shall be tormented for the sins of their fathers, and for their own sins,

⁴⁰till they acknowledge their wicked-nesses, and have mind of their evils, by which they trespassed against me, and went contrary to me.

⁴¹Therefore and I shall go against them, and I shall bring them into the land of their enemies, till the uncir-cumcised soul of them be ashamed; then they shall pray for their wicked-ness,

⁴²and I shall have mind of my bond of peace, that I covenanted with Jacob, Isaac, and with Abraham; also I shall be mindful of the land,

⁴³which, when it is left of them, shall please to itself in his sabbaths, and shall suffer wilderness for them; forsooth they shall pray for their sins, for they casted away my dooms, and despised my laws;

⁴⁴nevertheless, yea, when they were in the land of enemies, I casted not them away utterly, neither I despised them, so that they were wasted, and that I made void my covenant with them; for I am the Lord God of them.

⁴⁵And I shall have mind of my former bond of peace, when I led them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of heathen men, that I should be their God; I am the Lord God.