Leviticus 26
1 I am the
Lord your God: ye shall not make to yourselves gods made with hands, or
graven; neither shall ye rear up a pillar for yourselves, neither shall ye set
up a stone for an object in your land to worship it:
I am the Lord your God. 2 Ye shall
keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
3 If ye will walk in my ordinances,
and keep my commandments, and do them,
4 then will I give you the rain in its
season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field
shall yield their fruit. 5 And your
threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake
your seed time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full; and ye shall dwell
safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.
6 And I will give peace in your land,
and ye shall sleep, and none shall make you afraid;
and I will destroy the evil beasts out of your land,
7 and ye shall pursue your enemies,
and they shall fall before you with slaughter.
8 And five of you shall chase a
hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase tens of thousands; and your enemies
shall fall before you by the sword.
9 And I will look upon you, and
increase you, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
10 And ye shall eat that which is old
and very old, and bring forth the old to make way for the new.
11 And I will set my tabernacle among
you, and my soul shall not abhor you;
12 and I will walk among you, and be
your God, and ye shall be my people.
13 I am the Lord your God, who
brought you out of the land of Egypt, where ye were slaves; and I broke the
band of your yoke, and brought you forth openly.
14 But if ye will not hearken to me,
nor obey these my ordinances, 15 but
disobey them, and your soul should loathe my judgments, so that ye should not
keep all my commands, so as to break my covenant,
16 then will I do thus to you: I will
even bring upon you perplexity and the itch, and the fever that causes your
eyes to waste away, and disease that consumes your
life; and ye shall sow your seeds in vain, and your enemies shall eat them.
17 And I will set my face against
you, and ye shall fall before your enemies, and they that hate you shall
pursue you; and ye shall flee, no one pursuing you.
18 And if ye still refuse to hearken
to me, then will I chasten you yet more even seven times for your sins.
19 And I will break down the
haughtiness of your pride; and I will make your heaven iron, and your earth as
it were brass. 20 And your strength
shall be in vain; and your land shall not yield its seed, and the tree of your
field shall not yield its fruit.
21 And if after this ye should walk
perversely, and not be willing to obey me, I will further bring upon you seven
plagues according to your sins.
22 And I will send upon you the wild
beasts of the land, and they shall devour you, and shall consume your cattle:
and I will make you few in number, and your ways shall be desolate.
23 And if hereupon ye are not
corrected, but walk perversely towards me,
24 I also will walk with you with a
perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins.
25 And I will bring upon you a sword
avenging the cause of my covenant, and ye shall flee
for refuge to your cities; and I will send out death against you, and ye shall
be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
26 When I afflict you with famine of
bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall
render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
27 And if hereupon ye will not obey
me, but walk perversely towards me,
28 then will I walk with you with a
froward mind, and I will chasten you sevenfold according to your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your
sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
30 And I will render your pillars
desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden
images made with hands; and I will lay your carcases
on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.
31 And I will lay your cities waste,
and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell the savour of
your sacrifices. 32 And I will lay
your land desolate, and your enemies who dwell in it shall wonder at it.
33 And I will scatter you among the
nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land
shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.
34 Then the land shall enjoy its
sabbaths all the days of its desolation.
35 And ye shall be in the land of
your enemies; then the land shall keep its sabbaths, and the land shall enjoy
its sabbaths all the days of its desolation: it shall keep sabbaths which it
kept not among your sabbaths, when ye dwelt in it.
36 And to those who are left of you I
will bring bondage into their heart in the land of their enemies; and the
sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee as fleeing from
war, and shall fall when none pursues them.
37 And brother shall disregard
brother as in war, when none pursues; and ye shall not be able to withstand
your enemies. 38 And ye shall perish
among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.
39 And those who are left of you
shall perish, because of their sins, and because of the sins of their fathers:
in the land of their enemies shall they consume away.
40 And they shall confess their sins,
and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected me,
and that they have walked perversely before me,
41 and I walked with them with a
perverse mind; and I will destroy them in the land of their enemies: then
shall their uncircumcised heart be ashamed, and then shall they acquiesce in
the punishment of their sins.
42 And I will remember the covenant
of Jacob, and the covenant of Isaac, and the covenant of Abraam will I
remember.
43 And I will remember the land, and
the land shall be left of them; then the land shall enjoy her sabbaths, when
it is deserted through them: and they shall accept
the punishment of their iniquities, because they
neglected my judgments, and in their soul loathed my ordinances.
44 And yet not even thus, while they
were in the land of their enemies, did I overlook them, nor did I loathe them
so as to consume them, to break my covenant made with them; for I am the Lord
their God. 45 And I will remember
their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of bondage before the nations, to be their God; I am the Lord.
46 These are my judgments and my
ordinances, and the law which the Lord gave between himself and the children
of Israel, in the mount Sina, by the hand of Moses.