Leviticus 26:21,24,28 - Compare All Versions

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“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.

I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.

then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.

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

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

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

“If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins.

then I myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins.

then I will give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins.

“If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.

I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.

And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

‘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.

then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

“If you defy me and refuse to listen, your punishment will be seven times more than your sins: I’ll set wild animals on you; they’ll rob you of your children, kill your cattle, and decimate your numbers until you’ll think you are living in a ghost town.

“And if even this doesn’t work and you refuse my discipline and continue your defiance, then it will be my turn to defy you. I, yes I, will punish you for your sins seven times over: I’ll let war loose on you, avenging your breaking of the covenant; when you huddle in your cities for protection, I’ll send a deadly epidemic on you and you’ll be helpless before your enemies; when I cut off your bread supply, ten women will bake bread in one oven and ration it out. You’ll eat, but barely—no one will get enough.

“And if this—even this!—doesn’t work and you still won’t listen, still defy me, I’ll have had enough and in hot anger will defy you, punishing you for your sins seven times over: famine will be so severe that you’ll end up cooking and eating your sons in stews and your daughters in barbecues; I’ll smash your sex-and-religion shrines and all the paraphernalia that goes with them, and then stack your corpses and the idol-corpses in the same piles—I’ll abhor you; I’ll turn your cities into rubble; I’ll clean out your sanctuaries; I’ll hold my nose at the “pleasing aroma” of your sacrifices. I’ll turn your land into a lifeless moonscape—your enemies who come in to take over will be shocked at what they see. I’ll scatter you all over the world and keep after you with the point of my sword in your backs. There’ll be nothing left in your land, nothing going on in your cities. With you gone and dispersed in the countries of your enemies, the land, empty of you, will finally get a break and enjoy its Sabbath years. All the time it’s left there empty, the land will get rest, the Sabbaths it never got when you lived there.

‘Yet if you show hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

then I in turn will show hostility toward you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.

then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I for My part will punish you seven times for your sins.

‘If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins.

then I also will act with hostility against you, and I will strike you seven times for your sins.

then I will act with hostility against you in wrath, and I also will punish you seven times for your sins.

“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.