Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵ However, if you do not obey^(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^(C)

Punishment for Disobedience

¹⁴ “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,^(A)

³³ I will scatter^(A) you among the nations^(B) and will draw out my sword^(C) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,^(D) and your cities will lie in ruins.^{(E) 34} Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate^(F) and you are in the country of your enemies;^(G) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵ All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest^(H) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

³⁶ “‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf^(I) will put them to flight.^(J) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.^{(K) 37} They will stumble over one another^(L) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.^{(M) 38} You will perish^(N) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.^{(O) 39} Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’^(P) sins they will waste away.^(Q)

⁴⁰ “‘But if they will confess^(R) their sins^(S) and the sins of their ancestors^(T)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹ which made me hostile^(U) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^(V) are humbled^(W) and they pay^(X) for their sin, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(Y) and my covenant with Isaac^(Z) and my covenant with Abraham,^(AA) and I will remember the land. ⁴³ For the land will be deserted^(AB) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^(AC) my laws and abhorred my decrees.^{(AD) 44} Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,^(AE) I will not reject them or abhor^(AF) them so as to destroy them completely,^(AG) breaking my covenant^(AH) with them. I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵ But for their sake I will remember^(AI) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt^(AJ) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

⁴⁶ These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai^(AK) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.^(AL)