Leviticus 26:14-30
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p "But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,
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if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but q break my covenant,
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then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with r wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And s you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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I will t set my face against you, and u you shall be struck down before your enemies. v Those who hate you shall rule over you, and w you shall flee when none pursues you.
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And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again x sevenfold for your sins,
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and I will break y the pride of your power, and I z will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
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And a your strength shall be spent in vain, for b your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
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c "Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
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And d I 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 e your roads shall be deserted.
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"And f if by this discipline you are not turned to me c but walk contrary to me,
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g then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
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And h I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, i I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
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j When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and k you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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"But l if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
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then I will walk contrary to you m in fury, and I myself will discipline you x sevenfold for your sins.
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n You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
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And o I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and p cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.
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Cross References
Lamentations 2:17
The Lord has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.
Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
Deuteronomy 28:15 - 68
But if 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 overtake you.
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Leviticus 26:44
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.
Deuteronomy 31:20
For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.
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Deuteronomy 28:21
The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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Deuteronomy 28:33
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.
Deuteronomy 28:51
It shall eat 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.
Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.
Jeremiah 5:17
They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall beat down with the sword.
Micah 6:15
You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
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Leviticus 17:10
If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
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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 be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
Jeremiah 19:7
And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.
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Psalms 106:41
He gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.
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Cross References
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Leviticus 26:36
And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
Psalms 53:5
There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:21
Then if you walk contrary to me and will not li...
Leviticus 26:24
Then I also will walk contrary to you, and I my...
Leviticus 26:28
Then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I...
1 Samuel 2:5
Those who were full have hired themselves out f...
Psalms 119:164
Seven times a day I praise you for your righteo...
Proverbs 24:16
For the righteous falls seven times and rises a...
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Cross References
Ezekiel 30:6
Thus says the Lord : Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord God.
Jeremiah 13:9
Thus says the Lord : Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 28:23
And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
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Psalms 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
Isaiah 49:4
But I said, "I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the Lord, and my recompense with my God.
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Cross References
Haggai 1:10
Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
Leviticus 26:4
Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
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Leviticus 26:27
But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me.
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Deuteronomy 32:24
They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
Leviticus 26:6
I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
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Cross References
Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.
Zechariah 7:14
"and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate."
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Cross References
Jeremiah 2:30
In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.
Amos 4:6 - 12
I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
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Leviticus 26:21
Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
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2 Samuel 22:27
With the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
Psalms 18:26
With the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:25
Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors t...
Jeremiah 14:12
Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, an...
Jeremiah 24:10
And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence u...
Jeremiah 29:17 - 18
Thus says the Lord of hosts, behold, I am sendi...
Ezekiel 5:17
I will send famine and wild beasts against you,...
Ezekiel 6:3
And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word...
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, L...
Ezekiel 29:8
Therefore thus says the Lord God : Behold, I wi...
Ezekiel 33:2
Son of man, speak to your people and say to the...
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Cross References
Numbers 14:12
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
Deuteronomy 28:21
The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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Cross References
Psalms 105:16
When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water.
Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
Ezekiel 5:16
When I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.
Ezekiel 14:13
Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast.
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Cross References
Isaiah 9:20
They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own arm.
Micah 6:14
You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
Haggai 1:6
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:21
Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
Then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
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Cross References
Isaiah 59:18
According to their deeds, so will he repay, wra...
Isaiah 63:3
I have trodden the winepress alone, and from th...
Isaiah 66:15
For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his...
Jeremiah 21:5
I myself will fight against you with outstretch...
Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will ve...
Ezekiel 5:15
You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning ...
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not ...
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:18
And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins.
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Deuteronomy 28:53
And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.
Ezekiel 5:10
Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, 'Give your son, that we may eat him.' But she has hidden her son.
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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2 Chronicles 14:5
He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.
2 Chronicles 34:3 - 4
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
2 Chronicles 34:7
He broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 6:3 - 6
And say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
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2 Kings 23:20
And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:5
He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 6:5
And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
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