Leviticus 26:9-24

⁹I will come to help you, so you will reproduce and increase in numbers, and I will confirm my agreement with you.

¹⁰You'll still be eating your old stock of grain when you need to get rid of it so you can store the new grain.

¹¹I will come and live with you—I certainly won't reject you.

¹²I shall always be right there with you. I will be your God, and you will be my people.

¹³I am the Lord your God, who led you out of Egypt so you wouldn't have to be slaves to the Egyptians any longer. I smashed the yoke that kept you bent down and helped you to stand up straight.

¹⁴But if you don't pay attention to me and do what I tell you;

¹⁵if you reject my laws, hate my regulations, and refuse to follow my commandments, and consequently break my agreement,

¹⁶then this is what I am going to do to you: I will make you panic, and suffer from diseases like tuberculosis and fever that make you blind and drain your life away. It will be pointless for you to sow seed in your fields because your enemies will eat the harvest.

¹⁷I will turn against you, and you'll be defeated by your enemies. People who hate you will rule over you, and you'll run away even when there's no one chasing you!

¹⁸If after all this you still refuse to obey me, I will move to punishing you seven times over for your sins.

¹⁹I will break your self-reliant strength you're so proud of, and make your sky hard as iron and your land hard as bronze.

²⁰Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.

²¹If you go on opposing me and refusing to do what I tell you, I will make your punishments seven times worse, based on your sins.

²²I will send wild animals to kill your children, wipe out your livestock, and make you so few in number that there won't be anyone on your roads.

²³However, if in spite of all this correction you still don't change but go on opposing me,

²⁴then I will take action against you. I will punish you seven times over for your sins.