Lev 26:16-46, Deu 28:15-68, 29:21-24, 30:17-19, 31:17-18, 32:20-26 | 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. 17 I will ^cset my face against you, and ^dyou shall be struck down before your enemies. ^eThose who hate you shall rule over you, and ^fyou 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 ^gsevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break ^hthe pride of your power, and I ⁱwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And ^jyour strength shall be spent in vain, for ^kyour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

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

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

27 “But ^wif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you ^xin fury, and I myself will discipline you ^ysevenfold for your sins. 29 ^zYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And ^aaI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and ^abcast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will ^aclay your cities waste and will ^admake your sanctuaries desolate, and ^aeI will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And ^afI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^agappalled at it. 33 And ^ahI 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 ^ai“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, ^akI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^alsound of a ^amdriven 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 ^anyou 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 ^aorot 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 ^apthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they ^aqcommitted 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 ^aruncircumcised heart is ^ashumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will ^atremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will ^auremember the land. 43 But ^avthe 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, ^awI will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and ^axbreak my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, ^aywhom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^azin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

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

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

Curses for Disobedience

15 “But ^bcif 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 ^bdovertake you. 16 Cursed shall you be ^bein 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 ^bfwill send on you curses, confusion, and ^bgfrustration in all that you undertake to do, ^bhuntil you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make ^bithe pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 ^bjThe Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought ^{▼▼Or sword} and with ^blblight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And ^bmthe 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 ^bn“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 ^boshall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And ^bpyour dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and ^bqthere shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you ^brwith the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and ^bsscabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with ^btmadness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall ^bugrope 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 ^bwYou shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. ^bxYou shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. ^byYou 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 ^bzYour sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, ^cabut 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 ^cbby the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs ^ccwith grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

36 “The Lord will ^cdbring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you ^cenor your fathers have known. And ^cfthere you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become ^cga horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 ^chYou shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for ^cithe locust shall consume it. 39 ^cjYou 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 ^ckshall 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 ^clthey shall go into captivity. 42 ^cmThe cricket ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 ^coThe sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 ^cpHe shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. ^cqHe shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

45 ^cr“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 ^csa sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 ^ctBecause 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 ^cuwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 ^cvThe Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, ^cwswooping down like the eagle, a nation ^cxwhose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation ^cywho shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall ^czeat 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 ^dabesiege 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 ^dbyou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, ^dcin 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 ^ddbegrudge food to his brother, to ^dethe 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, ^dgin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 ^dhThe 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, ^djin 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, ^dkthe 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 ^dlthe 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 ^dmyou were as numerous ^dnas 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 ^dotook delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will ^dptake 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 ^dqwill scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^drthere you shall serve other gods ^dsof wood and stone, ^dtwhich neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And ^duamong these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but ^dvthe Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and ^dwa 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 ^dxIn 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 ^dythe sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord ^dzwill bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that ^eayou 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 29:21-24

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, ^ebwill 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 ^ecsalt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, ^edan overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, ^eeAdmah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath— 24 all the nations ^efwill say, ^eg‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’

Deuteronomy 30:17-19

17 But if ^ehyour heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 ^eiI 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. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, ^ejblessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Deuteronomy 31:17-18

17 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and ^ekI will forsake them and ^elhide 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, ^em‘Have not these evils come upon us because ^enour God is not among us?’ 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because ^eothey have turned to other gods.

Deuteronomy 32:20-26

20 And he said, ^ep‘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 ^eqThey have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger ^erwith their idols.
So ^esI will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with ^eta foolish nation.
22 For ^eua fire is kindled by my anger,
and it burns to ^evthe 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;
^ewI will spend my arrows on them;
24 they shall be wasted with hunger,
and devoured by plague
and poisonous pestilence;
I will send ^exthe teeth of beasts against them,
with the venom of ^eythings that crawl in the dust.
25 ^ezOutdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 ^faI would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
^fbI will wipe them from human memory,”