Leviticus 26:27-45

New King James Version

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 (A)You^[a] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

^30 (B)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 ^(C)cities waste and ^(D)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ^(E)smell the fragrance of your ^[b]sweet aromas.

^32 (F)I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

^33 (G)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

^34 (H)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 ^(I)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶ ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send ^(J)faintness^[c] 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 (K)They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and ^(L)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸ You shall ^(M)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹ And those of you who are left ^(N)shall ^[d]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their ^(O)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

⁴⁰ ‘But ^(P)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 ^(Q)uncircumcised hearts are ^(R)humbled, and they ^(S)accept their guilt—

⁴² then I will ^(T)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will ^(U)remember the land.

^43 (V)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 ^(W)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

⁴⁴ Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^(X)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 ^(Y)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, ^(Z)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^(AA)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”