Lev 26:14-33, Deu 28:15-68, 29:19-28, 32:34, 43, Psa 69:22-28, 149:7-9 | ESV | STEP | But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments ,

14 ^a“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 ^bbreak my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with ^cwasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And ^dyou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will ^eset my face against you, and ^fyou shall be struck down before your enemies. ^gThose who hate you shall rule over you, and ^hyou 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 ⁱsevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break ^jthe pride of your power, and I ^kwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And ^lyour strength shall be spent in vain, for ^myour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

21 ⁿ“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And ^oI 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 ^pyour roads shall be deserted.

23 “And ^qif by this discipline you are not turned to me ^rbut walk contrary to me, 24 ^sthen I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And ^tI will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, ^uI will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 ^vWhen 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 ^xyou shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 “But ^yif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you ^zin fury, and I myself will discipline you ^aasevenfold for your sins. 29 ^abYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And ^acI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and ^adcast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will ^aelay your cities waste and will ^afmake your sanctuaries desolate, and ^agI will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And ^ahI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^aiappalled at it. 33 And ^ajI 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.

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

Curses for Disobedience

15 “But ^akif 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 ^alovertake you. 16 Cursed shall you be ^amin 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 ^anwill send on you curses, confusion, and ^aofrustration in all that you undertake to do, ^apuntil you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make ^aqthe pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 ^arThe Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought ^{▼▼Or sword} and with ^atblight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And ^authe 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 ^av“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 ^awshall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And ^axyour dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and ^aythere shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you ^azwith the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and ^bascabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with ^bbmadness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall ^bcgrope 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 ^beYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. ^bfYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. ^bgYou 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 ^bhYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, ^bibut 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 ^bjby the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs ^bkwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 “The Lord will ^blbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you ^bmnor your fathers have known. And ^bnthere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become ^boa horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 ^bpYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^bqthe locust shall consume it. 39 ^brYou 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 ^bsshall 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 ^btthey shall go into captivity. 42 ^buThe cricket ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 ^bwThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 ^bxHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^byHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 ^bz“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 ^caa sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 ^cbBecause 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 ^ccwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 ^cdThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^ceswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^cfwhose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation ^cgwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall ^cheat 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 ^cibesiege 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 ^cjyou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ^ckin 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 ^clbegrudge food to his brother, to ^cmthe 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, ^coin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 ^cpThe 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, ^crin 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, ^csthe 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 ^ctthe 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 ^cuyou were as numerous ^cvas 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 ^cwtook delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will ^cxtake 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 ^cywill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^czthere you shall serve other gods ^daof wood and stone, ^dbwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And ^dcamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ^ddthe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ^dea 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 ^dfIn 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 ^dgthe sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord ^dhwill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ^diyou 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.”

Deuteronomy 29:19-28

19 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike. 20 The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather ^djthe anger of the Lord and ^dkhis jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord ^dlwill blot out his name from under heaven. 21 And the Lord will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law. 22 And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, ^dmwill say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick— 23 the whole land burned out with brimstone and ^dnsalt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, ^doan overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, ^dpAdmah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— 24 all the nations ^dqwill say, ^dr‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’ 25 Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. 27 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, ^dsbringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord ^dtuprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and ^ducast them into another land, as they are this day.’

Deuteronomy 32:34

34 “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
^dvsealed up in my treasuries?

Deuteronomy 32:43

43 ^dw“Rejoice with him, O heavens; ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text Rejoice his people, O nations}
bow down to him, all gods, ^{▼▼Masoretic Text lacks bow down to him, all gods}
for he ^dzavenges the blood of his children ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text servants}
and takes vengeance on his adversaries.
He repays those who hate him ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text lacks He repays those who hate him}
and cleanses ^{▼▼Or atones for} his people’s land.” ^{▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew his land his people}

Psalms 69:22-28

22 ^eeLet their own ^eftable before them become a snare;
^egand when they are at peace, let it become a trap. ^{▼▼Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap}
23 ^eiLet their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
^ejand make their loins tremble continually.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 ^ekMay their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they ^elpersecute him whom ^emyou have struck down,
and they recount the pain of ^enthose you have wounded.
27 ^eoAdd to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from you. ^{▼▼Hebrew may they not come into your righteousness}
28 Let them be ^eqblotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be ^erenrolled among the righteous.

Psalms 149:7-9

7 to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishments on the peoples,
8 to bind their kings with ^eschains
and their nobles with fetters of iron,
9 to execute on them the judgment ^etwritten!
^euThis is honor for all his godly ones.
^evPraise the Lord!