Leviticus 26

1 “Don't make yourselves idols anywhere in your land and bow down to worship them, whether they are images or sacred pillars or stone sculptures. For I am the Lord your God.

'Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] Jehovah your God.

2 Keep my Sabbaths and show respect for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

'My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I [am] Jehovah.

3 If you follow my rules and keep my regulations,

'If in My statutes ye walk, and My commands ye keep, and have done them,

4 I will make sure it rains at the right time so that the ground will grow good crops and the fruit trees will be productive.

then I have given your rains in their season, and the land hath given her produce, and the tree of the field doth give its fruit;

5 Your time of threshing will last right up to the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until the time you have to sow again. You will have more than enough to eat and you will live in safety in your land.

and reached to you hath the threshing, the gathering, and the gathering doth reach the sowing -[time]; and ye have eaten your bread to satiety, and have dwelt confidently in your land.

6 I will make sure your land is at peace. You will be able to sleep without being afraid of anything. I will get rid of dangerous animals from the land, and you will not suffer from any violent enemy attacks.

'And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land.

7 You will chase your enemies, and kill them with the sword.

'And ye have pursued your enemies, and they have fallen before you by the sword;

8 Five of you will kill one hundred, and one hundred of you will kill ten thousand. You will destroy your enemies.

and five of you have pursued a hundred, and a hundred of you do pursue a myriad; and your enemies have fallen before you by the sword.

9 I will come to help you, so you will reproduce and increase in numbers, and I will confirm my agreement with you.

'And I have turned unto you, and have made you fruitful, and have multiplied you, and have established My covenant with you;

10 You'll still be eating your old stock of grain when you need to get rid of it so you can store the new grain.

and ye have eaten old [store], and the old because of the new ye bring out.

11 I will come and live with you—I certainly won't reject you.

'And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you;

12 I shall always be right there with you. I will be your God, and you will be my people.

and I have walked habitually in your midst, and have become your God, and ye — ye are become My people;

13 I am the Lord your God, who led you out of Egypt so you wouldn't have to be slaves to the Egyptians any longer. I smashed the yoke that kept you bent down and helped you to stand up straight.

I [am] Jehovah your God, who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, from being their servants; and I break the bars of your yoke, and cause you to go erect.

14 But if you don't pay attention to me and do what I tell you;

'And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;

15 if you reject my laws, hate my regulations, and refuse to follow my commandments, and consequently break my agreement,

and if at My statutes ye kick, and if My judgments your soul loathe, so as not to do all My commands — to your breaking My covenant —

16 then this is what I am going to do to you: I will make you panic, and suffer from diseases like tuberculosis and fever that make you blind and drain your life away. It will be pointless for you to sow seed in your fields because your enemies will eat the harvest.

I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;

17 I will turn against you, and you'll be defeated by your enemies. People who hate you will rule over you, and you'll run away even when there's no one chasing you!

and I have set My face against you, and ye have been smitten before your enemies; and those hating you have ruled over you, and ye have fled, and there is none pursuing you.

18 If after all this you still refuse to obey me, I will move to punishing you seven times over for your sins.

'And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, — then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins;

19 I will break your self-reliant strength you're so proud of, and make your sky hard as iron and your land hard as bronze.

and I have broken the pride of your strength, and have made your heavens as iron, and your earth as brass;

20 Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.

and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.

21 If you go on opposing me and refusing to do what I tell you, I will make your punishments seven times worse, based on your sins.

'And if ye walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

22 I will send wild animals to kill your children, wipe out your livestock, and make you so few in number that there won't be anyone on your roads.

and sent against you the beast of the field, and it hath bereaved you; and I have cut off your cattle, and have made you few, and your ways have been desolate.

23 However, if in spite of all this correction you still don't change but go on opposing me,

'And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me [in] opposition,

24 then I will take action against you. I will punish you seven times over for your sins.

then I have walked — I also — with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

25 I will send enemies with swords to attack you in retaliation for breaking the agreement. Even though you retreat into your towns for defense, I will plague you with disease, and you will be handed over to your enemies.

and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy.

26 I will send a famine so bread is in short supply. One oven will serve the needs of ten women baking bread. It will be distributed by weight so that you'll eat but won't have enough.

'In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied.

27 However, if in spite of all this you don't obey me, but go on opposing me,

'And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

28 then I will take action against you in a rage of fury, and I will punish you myself seven times over for your sins.

then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

29 You will eat the bodies of your own sons and daughters.

'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.

30 I will destroy your high places of worship, smash your altars of incense, and pile up your dead bodies on what remains of your idols, which also have no life at all. I will really despise you.

And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you;

31 I will demolish your towns and destroy your pagan sanctuaries, and I will refuse to accept your sacrifices.

and I have made your cities a waste, and have made desolate your sanctuaries, and I smell not at your sweet fragrances;

32 I will devastate your land myself, so that your enemies who come and live in it will be horrified at what has happened.

and I have made desolate the land, and your enemies, who are dwelling in it, have been astonished at it.

33 I'm going to scatter you among the nations. You will be chased out by armies with swords as your land is ruined and your towns are destroyed.

And you I scatter among nations, and have drawn out after you a sword, and your land hath been a desolation, and your cities are a waste.

34 At least then the land will be able to enjoy its Sabbaths all the time it's abandoned while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. The land will finally be able to rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

'Then doth the land enjoy its sabbaths — all the days of the desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies — then doth the land rest, and hath enjoyed its sabbaths;

35 The whole time it's abandoned the land will observe the Sabbaths of rest that it wasn't able to do while you were living there.

all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it.

36 I will make those of you who survive so discouraged that as you live in the lands of your enemies even the sound of a leaf blowing in the wind will scare you into running away! You'll run away like you're being chased by someone with a sword, and fall down even though no one is after you.

'And those who are left of you — I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled — flight from a sword — and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

37 You'll trip over each other as you run away from the attack, then though no one's there. You'll have no power to resist your enemies.

And they have stumbled one on another, as from the face of a sword, and there is none pursuing, and ye have no standing before your enemies,

38 You'll die in exile and you'll be buried in a foreign country.

and ye have perished among the nations, and the land of your enemies hath consumed you.

39 Those of you who do manage to survive in the countries of your enemies will wither away because of their guilt, decaying as they share the sins of their fathers.

'And those who are left of you — they consume away in their iniquity, in the lands of your enemies; and also in the iniquities of their fathers, with them they consume away.

40 They need to confess their sins and those of their fathers, acting in such an unfaithful way towards me, opposing me.

'And — they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,

41 Because of this I took action against them and exiled them in the countries of their enemies. However, if they humbly give up their stubborn attitude and accept their punishment for their sins,

also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies — or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, —

42 then I will fulfill the agreement I made with Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham, and I will not forget my promise about the land.

then I have remembered My covenant [with] Jacob, and also My covenant [with] Isaac, and also My covenant [with] Abraham I remember, and the land I remember.

43 For the land will be left empty by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths being abandoned. They will pay for their sins, because they rejected my rules and regulations.

'And — the land is left of them, and doth enjoy its sabbaths, in the desolation without them, and they accept the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because, against My judgments they have kicked, and My statutes hath their soul loathed,

44 But despite all this, even while they are living in land of their enemies, I will not reject or hate them so much as to destroy them and break my agreement with them, because I am the Lord their God.

and also even this, in their being in the land of their enemies, I have not rejected them, nor have I loathed them, to consume them, to break My covenant with them; for I [am] Jehovah their God; —

45 Because of them I will renew the agreement I made with their fathers, those I led out of Egypt as the other nations watched, in order that I might be their God. I am the Lord.”

then I have remembered for them the covenant of the ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations to become their God; I [am] Jehovah.'

46 These are the rules, regulations, and laws that the Lord set up between himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.

These [are] the statutes, and the judgments, and the laws, which Jehovah hath given between Him and the sons of Israel, in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.