Lev 26:14-46, Deu 4:26-27, 28:15-68, 29:18-28, 31:16-17, 32:15-44 | 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.

34 ^ak“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, ^amI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^ansound of a ^aodriven 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 ^apyou 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 ^aqrot 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 ^arthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they ^ascommitted 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 ^atuncircumcised heart is ^auhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will ^avremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will ^awremember the land. 43 But ^axthe 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, ^ayI will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and ^azbreak my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, ^bawhom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^bbin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

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

Deuteronomy 4:26-27

26 I ^becall heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. 27 And the Lord ^bfwill scatter you among the peoples, ^bgand you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

Curses for Disobedience

15 “But ^bhif 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 ^biovertake you. 16 Cursed shall you be ^bjin 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 ^bkwill send on you curses, confusion, and ^blfrustration in all that you undertake to do, ^bmuntil you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make ^bnthe pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 ^boThe Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought ^{▼▼Or sword} and with ^bqblight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And ^brthe 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 ^bs“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 ^btshall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And ^buyour dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and ^bvthere shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you ^bwwith the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and ^bxscabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with ^bymadness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall ^bzgrope 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 ^cbYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. ^ccYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. ^cdYou 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 ^ceYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, ^cfbut 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 ^cgby the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs ^chwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 “The Lord will ^cibring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you ^cjnor your fathers have known. And ^ckthere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become ^cla horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 ^cmYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^cnthe locust shall consume it. 39 ^coYou 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 ^cpshall 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 ^cqthey shall go into captivity. 42 ^crThe cricket ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 ^ctThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 ^cuHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^cvHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 ^cw“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 ^cxa sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 ^cyBecause 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 ^czwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 ^daThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^dbswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^dcwhose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation ^ddwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall ^deeat 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 ^dfbesiege 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 ^dgyou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ^dhin 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 ^dibegrudge food to his brother, to ^djthe 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, ^dlin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 ^dmThe 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, ^doin 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, ^dpthe 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 ^dqthe 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 ^dryou were as numerous ^dsas 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 ^dttook delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will ^dutake 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 ^dvwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^dwthere you shall serve other gods ^dxof wood and stone, ^dywhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And ^dzamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ^eathe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ^eba 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 ^ecIn 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 ^edthe sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord ^eewill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ^efyou 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 29:18-28

18 Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you ^ega root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, 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 ^ehthe anger of the Lord and ^eihis jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord ^ejwill 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, ^ekwill 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 ^elsalt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, ^eman overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, ^enAdmah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— 24 all the nations ^eowill say, ^ep‘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, ^eqbringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord ^eruprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and ^escast them into another land, as they are this day.’

Deuteronomy 31:16-17

16 And the Lord said to Moses, ^et“Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and ^euwhore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will ^evforsake me and ^ewbreak my covenant that I have made with them. 17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and ^exI will forsake them and ^eyhide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ^ez‘Have not these evils come upon us because ^faour God is not among us?’

Deuteronomy 32:15-44

15 “But ^fbJeshurun grew fat, and ^fckicked;
^fdyou grew fat, stout, and sleek;
^fethen he forsook God ^ffwho made him
and scoffed at ^fgthe Rock of his salvation.
16 ^fhThey stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
17 ^fiThey sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to ^fjnew gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
18 You were unmindful of ^fkthe Rock that bore ^{▼▼Or fathered} you,
and you ^fmforgot the God who gave you birth.
19 ^fn“The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of ^fohis sons and his daughters.
20 And he said, ^fp‘I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
for they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
21 ^fqThey have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger ^frwith their idols.
So ^fsI will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with ^fta foolish nation.
22 For ^fua fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to ^fvthe depths of Sheol,
devours the earth and its increase,
and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;
^fwI will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send ^fxthe teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of ^fythings that crawl in the dust.
25 ^fzOutdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 ^gaI would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
^gbI will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, ^gc“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is ^gdno understanding in them.
29 ^geIf they were wise, they would understand this;
they would ^gfdiscern their latter end!
30 How could ^ggone have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock ^ghhad sold them,
and the Lord had given them up?
31 For ^githeir rock is not as our Rock;
^gjour enemies are by themselves.
32 For their vine ^gkcomes from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of ^glpoison;
their clusters are bitter;
33 their wine is the poison of ^gmserpents
and the cruel venom of asps.
34 “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,
^gnsealed up in my treasuries?
35 ^goVengeance is mine, and recompense, ^{▼▼Septuagint and I will repay}
^gqfor the time when their foot shall slip;
for ^grthe day of their calamity is at hand,
and their doom comes swiftly.’
36 For ^gsthe Lord will vindicate ^{▼▼Septuagint judge} his people
^guand have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, ^gvbond or free.
37 Then he will say, ^gw‘Where are their gods,
^gxthe rock in which they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!
39 “‘See now that ^gyI, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
^gzI kill and I make alive;
^haI wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
40 For ^hbI lift up my hand to heaven
and swear, As I live forever,
41 if I ^hcsharpen my flashing sword ^{▼▼Hebrew the lightning of my sword}
and my hand takes hold on judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and will repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
and ^hemy sword shall devour flesh—
with the blood of the slain and the captives,
from the ^hflong-haired heads of the enemy.’
43 ^hg“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 ^hjavenges 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}
44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and ^hoJoshua ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew Hoshea} the son of Nun.