Leviticus 26

1 I am the Lord your God. You shall not make for yourselves an idol or a graven image. Neither shall you erect a monument, or set up a conspicuous stone in your land, in order that you may adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.

2 Observe my Sabbaths, and be fearful toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

3 If you will walk in my precepts, and observe my commandments, and accomplish them, I will give to you rain in its time,

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

4 and the ground shall bring forth its seedlings, and the trees shall be filled again with fruit.

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

5 The threshing of the harvest shall last until the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing. And you shall eat your bread to fullness, and you shall live in your land without fear.

And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

6 I will give peace to your most distant regions. You will sleep, and there will be no one to strike you with terror. I will take away harmful wild beasts, and the sword will not cross your borders.

And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall down at the sight of you.

And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

8 Five of yours will pursue a hundred foreigners, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall by the sword in your sight.

And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

9 I will look with favor upon you, and I will cause you to increase; you will be multiplied, and I will confirm my covenant with you.

For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10 You will eat the oldest of what is old, and, when what is new arrives, you will throw away what is old.

And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

11 I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and my soul will not cast you out.

And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people.

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

13 I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of the Egyptians, lest you serve them, and who broke the chains around your necks, so that you would walk upright.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 But if you will not listen to me, nor accomplish all of my commandments,

But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments;

15 if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification,

And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul shall abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

16 then I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with destitution, and burning heat, which will waste away your eyes, and consume your lives. In vain will you sow your seed, which will be devoured by your enemies.

I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17 I will set my face against you, and you will fall down before your enemies, and you will be subjugated to those who hate you. You will flee, though no one pursues.

And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18 But if you will not be obedient to me in this way, then I will add sevenfold to your chastisement, because of your sins.

And if ye will not yet for all this hearken to me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19 And I will crush the pride in your hardness, and I will give to you heaven above like iron, and the earth below like brass.

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

20 Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.

And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

21 If you walk as an adversary to me, and if you are not willing to listen to me, I will add sevenfold to your plagues, because of your sins.

And if ye shall walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

22 And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the field, which will consume you and your cattle, and which will reduce everything to paucity, and cause your roadways to become desolate.

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

23 But if you are not willing to receive discipline in this way, and you still walk as an adversary to me,

And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me;

24 likewise, I will advance against you as an adversary, and I will strike you seven times, because of your sins.

Then will I also walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25 And I will lead over you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you will have fled into the cities, I will send a pestilence into your midst, and you will be delivered into the hands of your enemies.

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled.

And when I have broke the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 Then, if you will not listen to me through these things, and you still walk against me,

And if ye will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary to me;

28 then I also will advance against you, with an opposing fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues, because of your sins:

Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 so much so that you will eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30 I will destroy your high places, and I will break apart your false images. You will fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul will abominate you:

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your remains upon the remains of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31 so much so that I will reduce your cities to a wilderness, and I will make your Sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer accept the most sweet odors.

And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

32 And I will utterly ruin your land, and your enemies shall be stupefied at it, when they will have become its inhabitants.

And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

33 Then I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will unsheathe the sword after you. And your land will be deserted, and your cities will be demolished.

And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

34 Then the land will be pleased by her Sabbaths, throughout all the days of her solitude. So, while you will be

Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

35 in the land of the enemy, she will worship and rest in the Sabbath of her solitude, because she will not have rested in your Sabbaths, when you lived in her.

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

36 And whoever of you will remain, I will send terror into their hearts in the regions of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf will terrify them, and so they will flee, as if from the sword. They will fall, though no one pursues.

And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

37 And they will each fall upon their brothers, as if they were fleeing from wars; no one among you will dare to resist your foes.

And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 You will perish among the Gentiles, and the land of the enemy will consume you.

And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39 But if some few of these still remain, they shall waste away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they will be afflicted, because of the sins of their fathers and their own sins,

And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

40 until they confess their iniquities, and those of their ancestors, by which they have transgressed against me and walked as adversaries to me.

If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;

41 Therefore, I also will walk against them, and I will lead them into a hostile land, until their uncircumcised mind shall be ashamed. Then shall they pray on behalf of their impiety.

And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

42 And I will remember my covenant, which I formed with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land,

Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

43 which, when she will be left behind by them, shall be pleased by her Sabbaths, enduring solitude because of them. Yet truly, they shall pray for their sins, because they cast aside my judgments, and they despised my laws.

The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

44 And even after so much, when they were in the land of their enemy, I did not cast them off entirely, and I did not so despise them that they would be consumed, nor so that I would nullify my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.

And yet for all that, when they shall be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

45 And I will remember my original covenant, when I led them away from the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, so as to be their God. I am the Lord.

But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

46 These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord has granted between himself and the sons of Israel, on mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.