Gen 6:17, Lev 26:14-46, Deu 28:15-68, Jer 11:8, 15:3-4, 19:7-13, 21:4-10 | ESV | STEP | For behold , I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven . Everything that is on the earth shall die .

17 ^aFor behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.

Leviticus 26:14-46

Punishment for Disobedience

14 ^b“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but ^cbreak my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with ^dwasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And ^eyou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will ^fset my face against you, and ^gyou shall be struck down before your enemies. ^hThose who hate you shall rule over you, and ⁱyou shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again ^jsevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break ^kthe pride of your power, and I ^lwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And ^myour strength shall be spent in vain, for ⁿyour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

21 ^o“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And ^pI will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that ^qyour roads shall be deserted.

23 “And ^rif by this discipline you are not turned to me ^sbut walk contrary to me, 24 ^tthen I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And ^uI will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, ^vI will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 ^wWhen I break your supply ^{▼▼Hebrew staff} of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and ^yyou shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 “But ^zif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you ^aain fury, and I myself will discipline you ^absevenfold for your sins. 29 ^acYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And ^adI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and ^aecast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will ^aflay your cities waste and will ^agmake your sanctuaries desolate, and ^ahI will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And ^aiI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^ajappalled at it. 33 And ^akI will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 ^al“Then the land shall enjoy ^{▼▼Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43} its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, ^anI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^aosound of a ^apdriven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And ^aqyou shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall ^arrot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

40 “But if ^asthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they ^atcommitted against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their ^auuncircumcised heart is ^avhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will ^awremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will ^axremember the land. 43 But ^aythe land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^azI will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and ^babreak my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, ^bbwhom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^bcin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

46 ^bdThese are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses ^beon Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

Curses for Disobedience

15 “But ^bfif you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and ^bgovertake you. 16 Cursed shall you be ^bhin the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

20 “The Lord ^biwill send on you curses, confusion, and ^bjfrustration in all that you undertake to do, ^bkuntil you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make ^blthe pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 ^bmThe Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought ^{▼▼Or sword} and with ^boblight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And ^bpthe heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

25 ^bq“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you ^brshall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And ^bsyour dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and ^btthere shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you ^buwith the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and ^bvscabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with ^bwmadness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall ^bxgrope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. ^{▼▼Or shall not succeed in finding your ways} And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 ^bzYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. ^caYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. ^cbYou shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 ^ccYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, ^cdbut you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad ^ceby the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs ^cfwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 “The Lord will ^cgbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you ^chnor your fathers have known. And ^cithere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become ^cja horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 ^ckYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^clthe locust shall consume it. 39 ^cmYou shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you ^cnshall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for ^cothey shall go into captivity. 42 ^cpThe cricket ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 ^crThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 ^csHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^ctHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 ^cu“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be ^cva sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 ^cwBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he ^cxwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 ^cyThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^czswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^dawhose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation ^dbwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall ^dceat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

52 “They shall ^ddbesiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And ^deyou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ^dfin the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will ^dgbegrudge food to his brother, to ^dhthe wife he embraces, ^{▼▼Hebrew the wife of his bosom} and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, ^djin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 ^dkThe most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, ^{▼▼Hebrew the husband of her bosom} to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, ^dmin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, ^dnthe Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all ^dothe diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 Whereas ^dpyou were as numerous ^dqas the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And as the Lord ^drtook delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will ^dstake delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

64 “And the Lord ^dtwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^duthere you shall serve other gods ^dvof wood and stone, ^dwwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And ^dxamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ^dythe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ^dza languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 ^eaIn the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and ^ebthe sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord ^ecwill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ^edyou should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Jeremiah 11:8

8 ^eeYet they did not obey or incline their ear, ^efbut everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all ^egthe words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”

Jeremiah 15:3-4

3 ^ehI will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and ^eithe birds of the air ^ejand the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4 ^ekAnd I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what ^elManasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 19:7-13

7 And in this place ^emI will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, ^enand will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. ^eoI will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth. 8 And I will make this city ^epa horror, ^eqa thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds. 9 ^erAnd I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor ^esin the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’

10 “Then ^etyou shall break ^euthe flask in the sight of the men who go with you, 11 and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, ^evas one breaks a potter’s vessel, ^ewso that it can never be mended. ^exMen shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury. 12 Thus will I do to this place, declares the Lord, and to its inhabitants, making this city ^eylike Topheth. 13 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah— ^ezall the houses on whose ^faroofs offerings have been offered ^fbto all the host of heaven, and ^fcdrink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled ^fdlike the place of Topheth.’”

Jeremiah 21:4-10

4 ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ^feBehold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. ^ffAnd I will bring them together into the midst of this city. 5 I myself will fight against you ^fgwith outstretched hand and strong arm, ^fhin anger and in fury and in great wrath. 6 And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence. 7 Afterward, declares the Lord, ^fiI will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. ^fjHe shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.’

8 “And to this people you shall say: ^fk‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, ^flI set before you the way of life and the way of death. 9 He who stays in this city shall die ^fmby the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and ^fnsurrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live ^foand shall have his life as a prize of war. 10 For ^fpI have set my face against this city for harm and ^fqnot for good, declares the Lord: ^frit shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’