q[See ver. 21 above]
z[See ver. 18 above]
aw[See ver. 34 above]
cn[See ver. 38 above]
cr[See ver. 43 above]
dk[See ver. 55 above]
em[See ver. 14 above]

Leviticus 26:15-46

15if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but abreak my covenant, 16then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with bwasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And cyou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17I will dset my face against you, and eyou shall be struck down before your enemies. fThose who hate you shall rule over you, and gyou shall flee when none pursues you. 18And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again hsevenfold for your sins, 19and I will break ithe pride of your power, and I jwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20And kyour strength shall be spent in vain, for lyour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

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

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

27“But xif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28then I will walk contrary to you yin fury, and I myself will discipline you zsevenfold for your sins. 29 aaYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30And abI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and accast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31And I will adlay your cities waste and will aemake your sanctuaries desolate, and afI will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32And agI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ahappalled at it. 33And aiI 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 aj“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 enemiesland; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35As 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. 36And as for those of you who are left, alI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The amsound of a andriven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And aoyou shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39And those of you who are left shall aprot away in your enemieslands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

40“But if aqthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they arcommitted against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemiesif then their asuncircumcised heart is athumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42then I will auremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will avremember the land. 43But awthe 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. 44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, axI will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and aybreak my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, azwhom I brought out of the land of Egypt bain the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

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

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

Curses for Disobedience

15“But bdif 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 beovertake you. 16Cursed shall you be bfin the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.

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

25 bo“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 bpshall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26And bqyour dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and brthere shall be no one to frighten them away. 27The Lord will strike you bswith the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and btscabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28The Lord will strike you with bumadness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29and you shall bvgrope 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 bxYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. byYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. bzYou shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31Your 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 caYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, cbbut you shall be helpless. 33A 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, 34so that you are driven mad ccby the sights that your eyes see. 35The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs cdwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

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

45 csAll 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. 46They shall be cta sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 cuBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he cvwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 cwThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, cxswooping down like the eagle, a nation cywhose language you do not understand, 50a hard-faced nation czwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51It shall daeat 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 dbbesiege 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. 53And dcyou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ddin the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54The man who is the most tender and refined among you will debegrudge food to his brother, to dfthe wife he embraces,
Hebrew  the wife of his bosom
and to the last of the children whom he has left,
55so 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, dhin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 diThe 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,
57her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, dkin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

58If 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, dlthe Lord your God, 59then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60And he will bring upon you again all dmthe diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61Every 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. 62Whereas dnyou were as numerous doas the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63And as the Lord dptook delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will dqtake 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 drwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and dsthere you shall serve other gods dtof wood and stone, duwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65And dvamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but dwthe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and dxa languishing soul. 66Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 dyIn 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 dzthe sights that your eyes shall see. 68And the Lord eawill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ebyou 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 29:18-23

18Beware 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 eca root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, 19one 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. 20The Lord will not be willing to forgive him, but rather edthe anger of the Lord and eehis jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the Lord efwill blot out his name from under heaven. 21And 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. 22And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, egwill say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the Lord has made it sick 23the whole land burned out with brimstone and ehsalt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, eian overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, ejAdmah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath

Deuteronomy 30:17-18

17But if ekyour heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 elI declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 31:16-18

16And the Lord said to Moses, emBehold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and enwhore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will eoforsake me and epbreak my covenant that I have made with them. 17Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and eqI will forsake them and erhide 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, es‘Have not these evils come upon us because etour God is not among us?’ 18And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because euthey have turned to other gods.

2 Kings 25:1-4

Fall and Captivity of Judah

1 evAnd in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, ewNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. exAnd they built siegeworks all around it. 2So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3On the ninth day of the fourth month eythe famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. 4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by ezthe king’s garden, and fathe Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the fbArabah.
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