Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵ “But ^(A)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 ^(B)overtake you.

^14 (A)I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, ^(B)I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

¹² because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.

²⁷ But if you do not listen to me, to ^(A)keep the Sabbath day holy, ^(B)and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will ^(C)kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall ^(D)devour the palaces of Jerusalem and ^(E)shall not be quenched.’”

⁴ You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^(A)If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,

²³ And they entered and took possession of it. ^(A)But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them.

²³ It is because you made offerings ^(A)and because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey the voice of the Lord or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies ^(B)that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day.”