Punishment for Disobedience
14
'But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,
15
and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
16
I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, t wasting disease and fever which shall u consume the eyes and v cause sorrow of heart.
And w you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
17
I will set x My face against you, and y you shall be defeated by your enemies.
z Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall a flee when no one pursues you.
18
'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you b seven times more for your sins.
19
I will c break the pride of your power;
I d will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
20
And your e strength shall be spent in vain;
for your f land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21
'Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
22
g I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;
and h your highways shall be desolate.
23
'And if i by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
24
j then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25
And k I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities l I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26
m When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, n and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27
'And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28
then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29
o You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
30
p I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.
31
I will lay your q cities waste and r bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not s smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas.
32
t I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33
u I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
34
v Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest -
for the time it did not rest on your w sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36
'And as for those of you who are left, I will send x faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37
y They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;
and z you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38
You shall a perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39
And those of you who are left b shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands;
also in their c fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
40
'But d if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41
and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their e uncircumcised hearts are f humbled, and they g accept their guilt -
42
then I will h remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will i remember the land.
43
j The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they k despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
44
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, l I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;
for I am the LORD their God.
45
But m for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, n whom I brought out of the land of Egypt o in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:
I am the LORD.' "
46
p These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the LORD made between Himself and the children of Israel q on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:22
The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching, and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
-
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:33
But any of your men whom I do not cut off from My altar shall consume your eyes and grieve your heart. And all the descendants of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
-
Cross References
Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall neither mourn nor weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and mourn with one another.
Ezekiel 33:10
"Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: 'Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"'
-
Cross References
Judges 6:3 - 6
So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and another eat; Yes, let my harvest be rooted out.
Micah 6:15
You shall sow, but not reap; You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; And make sweet wine, but not drink wine.
-
Cross References
Psalms 34:16
The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:25
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 shall become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.
1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
1 Samuel 31:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
-
Cross References
Psalms 106:41
And He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles, And those who hated them ruled over them.
-
Cross References
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.
-
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, And the hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, And she who has many children has become feeble.
-
Cross References
Isaiah 25:11
And He will spread out His hands in their midst As a swimmer reaches out to swim, And He will bring down their pride Together with the trickery of their hands.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:23
And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
-
Cross References
Psalms 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.
Isaiah 17:10
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, And have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold, Therefore you will plant pleasant plants And set out foreign seedlings.
Isaiah 17:11
In the day you will make your plant to grow, And in the morning you will make your seed to flourish; But the harvest will be a heap of ruins In the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
Isaiah 49:4
Then I said, 'I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in vain; Yet surely my just reward is with the LORD, And my work with my God.'
Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
-
Cross References
Genesis 4:12
"When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth."
Deuteronomy 11:17
Lest the LORD's anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the LORD is giving you.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.
Ezekiel 14:21
For thus says the Lord GOD: "How much more it shall be when I send My four severe judgments on Jerusalem - the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence - to cut off man and beast from it?
-
Cross References
Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, In the days of Jael, The highways were deserted, And the travelers walked along the byways.
2 Chronicles 15:5
And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.
Zechariah 7:14
"But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate."
-
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:30
In vain I have chastened your children; They received no correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets Like a destroying lion.
Amos 4:6 - 12
Also I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities. And lack of bread in all your places; Yet you have not returned to Me," Says the LORD.
-
Cross References
Leviticus 26:28
Then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:41
And that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt -
Psalms 18:26
With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.
-
Cross References
Ezekiel 5:17
'So I will send against you famine and wild beasts, and they will bereave you. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.'"
-
Cross References
Numbers 16:49
Now those who died in the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died in the Korah incident.
Deuteronomy 28:21
The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess.
2 Samuel 24:15
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.
-
Cross References
Psalms 105:16
Moreover He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread.
Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah The stock and the store, The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water.
Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread.
Ezekiel 4:17
That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 5:16
When I send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.
-
Cross References
Micah 6:14
You shall eat, but not be satisfied; Hunger shall be in your midst. You may carry some away, but shall not save them; And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.
Haggai 1:6
"You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes."
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:53
You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you.
2 Kings 6:28
Then the king said to her, "What is troubling you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
2 Kings 6:29
"So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
-
Cross References
1 Kings 13:2
Then he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar! Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, a child, Josiah by name, shall be born to the house of David; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and men's bones shall be burned on you.'
2 Chronicles 34:3
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.
Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered; And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: When he makes all the stones of the altar Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust, Wooden images and incense altars shall not stand.
Ezekiel 6:3 - 6
And say, 'O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys: "Indeed I, even I, will bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
Ezekiel 6:13
Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.
-
Cross References
2 Kings 25:4
Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And the king went by way of the plain.
2 Kings 25:10
And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
-
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:19
Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.
Psalms 74:7
They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
-
Cross References
Isaiah 1:11 - 15
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats.
-
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:11
"I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."
Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land desolate and a perpetual hissing; Everyone who passes by it will be astonished And shake his head.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:27
And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples...
Psalms 44:11
You have given us up like sheep intended for fo...
Ezekiel 12:15
Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I...
Ezekiel 20:23
Also I raised My hand in an oath to those in th...
Ezekiel 22:15
I will scatter you among the nations, disperse ...
Zechariah 7:14
"But I scattered them with a whirlwind among al...
-
Cross References
Leviticus 26:43
The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
2 Chronicles 36:21
To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
-
Cross References
Leviticus 25:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.
-
Cross References
Isaiah 30:17
One thousand shall flee at the threat of one, A...
Lamentations 1:3
Judah has gone into captivity, Under affliction...
Lamentations 1:6
And from the daughter of Zion All her splendor ...
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of th...
Ezekiel 21:7
"And it shall be when they say to you, 'Why are...
Ezekiel 21:12
Cry and wail, son of man; For it will be agains...
Ezekiel 21:15
I have set the point of the sword against all t...
-
Cross References
Judges 7:22
When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
1 Samuel 14:15
And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and the raiders also trembled; and the earth quaked, so that it was a very great trembling.
1 Samuel 14:16
Now the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and there was the multitude, melting away; and they went here and there.
Isaiah 10:4
Without Me they shall bow down among the prisoners, And they shall fall among the slain." For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.
-
Cross References
Joshua 7:12
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.
Joshua 7:13
"Get up, sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the LORD God of Israel: " There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you."
Judges 2:14
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:26
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you will soon utterly perish from the land which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will not prolong your days in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:65
And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul.
Ezekiel 4:17
That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 33:10
"Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: 'Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"'
Zechariah 10:9
I will sow them among the peoples, And they shall remember Me in far countries; They shall live, together with their children, And they shall return.
-
Cross References
Exodus 34:7
"keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
-
Cross References
Numbers 5:7
Then he shall confess the sin which he has comm...
1 Kings 8:33
When Your people Israel are defeated before an ...
1 Kings 8:34
Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of You...
Nehemiah 9:2
Then those of Israelite lineage separated thems...
Luke 15:18
I will arise and go to my father, and will say ...
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just...
-
Cross References
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
-
Cross References
2 Chronicles 12:6
So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD is righteous.
2 Chronicles 12:7
Now when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:12
When he humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and things also went well in Judah.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.
1 Peter 5:6
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.
-
Cross References
Psalms 39:9
I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it.
Psalms 51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
Psalms 51:4
Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight - That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.
Daniel 9:7
O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day - to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
-
Cross References
Exodus 2:24
So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 6:5
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.
Psalms 106:45
And for their sake He remembered His covenant, And relented according to the multitude of His mercies.
Ezekiel 16:60
Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
-
Cross References
Psalms 136:23
Who remembered us in our lowly state, For His mercy endures forever.
-
Cross References
Leviticus 26:34
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest - for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
-
Cross References
Leviticus 26:15
And if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant.
-
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:31
(for the LORD your God is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them.
2 Kings 13:23
But the LORD was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and regarded them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence.
Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with you,' says the LORD, 'to save you; Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, Yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, And will not let you go altogether unpunished.
Romans 11:1 - 36
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
-
Cross References
Romans 11:28
Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
-
Cross References
Leviticus 22:33
"who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD."
Leviticus 25:38
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
-
Cross References
Psalms 98:2
The LORD has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles among whom they were, in whose sight I had made Myself known to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 20:14
But I acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
Ezekiel 20:22
Nevertheless I withdrew My hand and acted for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out.
-
Cross References
Leviticus 27:34
These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
Deuteronomy 6:1
Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the LORD your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess.
Deuteronomy 12:1
These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
John 1:17
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
-
Cross References
Leviticus 25:1
And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.