Lev 26:16, 25-26, Deu 28:21-61, Rut 1:1, 1Ki 8:37-40, 2Ch 20:5-13 | ESV | STEP | then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic , with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache . And you shall sow your seed in vain , for your enemies shall eat it.

16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with ^awasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And ^byou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Leviticus 26:25-26

25 And ^cI will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, ^dI will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 ^eWhen 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 ^gyou shall eat and not be satisfied.

Deuteronomy 28:21-61

21 The Lord will make ^hthe pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 ⁱThe Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought ^{▼▼Or sword} and with ^kblight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And ^lthe 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 ^m“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 ⁿshall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And ^oyour dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and ^pthere shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you ^qwith the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and ^rscabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with ^smadness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall ^tgrope 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 ^vYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. ^wYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. ^xYou 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 ^yYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, ^zbut 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 ^aaby the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs ^abwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 “The Lord will ^acbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you ^adnor your fathers have known. And ^aethere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become ^afa horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 ^agYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^ahthe locust shall consume it. 39 ^aiYou 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 ^ajshall 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 ^akthey shall go into captivity. 42 ^alThe cricket ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 ^anThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 ^aoHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^apHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 ^aq“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 ^ara sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 ^asBecause 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 ^atwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 ^auThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^avswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^awwhose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation ^axwho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall ^ayeat 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 ^azbesiege 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 ^bayou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ^bbin 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 ^bcbegrudge food to his brother, to ^bdthe 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, ^bfin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 ^bgThe 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, ^biin 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, ^bjthe 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 ^bkthe 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.

Ruth 1:1

Naomi Widowed

1 In the days ^blwhen the judges ruled there was ^bma famine in the land, and a man of ^bnBethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

1 Kings 8:37-40

37 ^bo“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac in any of their cities} whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 38 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ( ^bqfor you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), 40 that they may fear you ^brall the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.

2 Chronicles 20:5-13

5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, 6 and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not ^bsGod in heaven? You ^btrule over all the kingdoms of the nations. ^buIn your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. 7 Did you not, our God, ^bvdrive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of ^bwAbraham your friend? 8 And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, 9 ^bx‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, ^{▼▼Or the sword of judgment} or pestilence, or famine, ^bzwe will stand before this house and before you— ^cafor your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ 10 And now behold, the men of ^cbAmmon and Moab and ^ccMount Seir, whom ^cdyou would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, ^ceand whom they avoided and did not destroy— 11 behold, they reward us ^cfby coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12 O our God, will you not ^cgexecute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but ^chour eyes are on you.”

13 Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.