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Ang Balos sa Pagkamatinumanon(A)

26 Indi kamo maghimo sang mga dios-dios pareho sang mga imahen, handumanan nga bato, ukon bato nga may larawan, agod simbahon, kay ako amo ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios.

Tumana ninyo ang akon mga ginapahimo sa inyo sa mga Adlaw nga Inugpahuway kag tahura ninyo ang lugar nga ginasimbahan ninyo sa akon. Ako amo ang Ginoo.

Kon tumanon ninyo ang akon mga pagsulundan kag mga sugo, padal-an ko kamo sang ulan sa husto nga panahon agod nga ang duta makapatubas kag ang mga kahoy makapamunga. Mangin bugana gid kaayo ang inyo mga patubas nga bisan pa gani ang inyo paglinas sang mga uhay magapadayon hasta sa tigpamupo sang mga ubas, kag ang inyo pagpamupo sang ubas magapadayon hasta sa inyo tigpalanggas. Gani makapagusto kamo sang inyo nga pagkaon kag magakabuhi pa kamo nga malinong sa inyo lugar.

Paluntaron ko ang kalinong sa inyo lugar, gani makatulog kamo nga wala sing may ginakahadlukan. Pangtabugon ko ang mapintas nga mga sapat sa inyo lugar, kag wala sing mga kaaway nga makasalakay sa inyo. Kamo ang magasalakay sa inyo mga kaaway kag pamatyon ninyo sila. Ang 5 sa inyo makapierdi sang 100 kag ang 100 sa inyo makapierdi sang 10,000. Ipakita ko ang akon kaayo sa inyo kag hatagan ko kamo sang madamo nga mga kaliwat agod matuman ko ang akon kasugtanan sa inyo. 10 Tungod nga mangin bugana gid ang inyo mga patubas, ang inyo pagakaunon amo pa ang nagligad ninyo nga mga patubas hasta nga maabtan pa ini kag mailisan sang bag-o naman nga patubas. 11 Magapuyo ako upod sa inyo kag indi ko kamo pag-isikway. 12 Magaupod ako sa inyo kag ako padayon nga mangin Dios ninyo kag kamo padayon nga mangin katawhan ko. 13 Ako ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios nga nagpaguwa sa inyo sa Egipto agod nga indi na kamo mangin mga ulipon sang mga Egiptohanon. Ginhilway ko na kamo, gani wala na kamo sing dapat nga ikahuya.

Ang Balos sa Pagkadimatinumanon(B)

14-15 Pero kon indi gani kamo magpamati sa akon kag indi magtuman sang tanan ko nga mga sugo, mga pagsulundan kag mga ginapatuman, kag tungod sini ginalapas ninyo ang kasugtanan ko sa inyo, 16 amo ini ang akon himuon sa inyo: Mataranta kamo sa kahadlok tungod kay padal-an ko kamo sang makamamatay nga mga balatian kag hilanat nga makaguba sang inyo mga mata kag mga lawas. Magatanom kamo, pero indi ninyo ini mapuslan kay salakayon kamo sang inyo mga kaaway kag kaunon nila ang inyo mga patubas. 17 Kontrahon ko kamo agod nga mapierdi kamo sang inyo mga kaaway kag dumalahan nila kamo. Tungod sa kakulba magapalalagyo kamo bisan wala sing may nagalagas sa inyo. 18 Kag kon indi gihapon kamo magpamati sa akon, silutan ko kamo sing pito ka pilo. 19 Dulaon ko ang ginapabugal ninyo nga gahom. Indi ko gid pagpaulanon, gani magatig-a gid ang inyo mga duta.[a] 20 Mangin wala gid sing pulos ang inyo pagpangabudlay, kay ang inyo mga duta indi magpatubas kag ang inyo mga kahoy indi magpamunga.

21 Kon padayon pa gid kamo nga magsupak sa akon kag indi kamo magpamati sa akon, dugangan ko pa gid liwat sing pito ka pilo ang inyo silot. 22 Padal-an ko kamo sang mapintas nga mga sapat kag pamatyon nila ang inyo mga bata kag mga kasapatan, kag tungod sini diutay na lang ang mabilin sa inyo sa bagay nga daw wala na sing may nagalakat sa inyo mga dalan.

23 Kon indi gihapon kamo magpamati sa akon kundi padayon pa gid kamo nga magsupak sa akon, 24 ako gid mismo ang magakontra sa inyo kag silutan ko kamo sing pito pa gid ka pilo. 25 Ipasalakay ko kamo sa inyo mga kaaway sa pagsilot sa inyo tungod sang inyo paglapas sa aton kasugtanan. Bisan magpanago pa kamo sa inyo mga banwa padal-an ko gihapon kamo sang mga kalalat-an, kag tungod sini mapilitan kamo nga magsurender sa inyo kaaway. 26 Kulangon ang inyo pagkaon, gani isa lang ka pugon ang gamiton sang napulo ka babayi sa pagluto sang tinapay, kag tunga-tungaon pa nila ini sa inyo. Makakaon kamo matuod pero indi kamo mabusog.

27 Kon indi gihapon kamo magpamati sa akon kundi padayon pa gid kamo nga magsupak sa akon, 28 sa akon kaakig kontrahon ko kamo kag silutan sing pito pa gid ka pilo. 29 Pagutuman ko kamo kag mapilitan kamo sa pagkaon sang inyo kaugalingon nga mga anak. 30 Panggub-on ko ang inyo mga simbahan sa mataas nga mga lugar pati ang mga halaran sini nga sulunugan sang insenso. Kag ihaboy ko ang inyo mga bangkay sa ibabaw sang inyo patay nga mga dios-dios, kag isikway ko kamo. 31 Gub-on ko ang inyo mga banwa kag mga simbahan, kag indi ako malipay sa kahamot sang inyo mga halad. 32 Gub-on ko ang inyo lugar, kag ang inyo mga kaaway nga magasakop sini matingala gid sa pagkaguba sini. 33 Padal-an ko kamo sang gira nga magaguba sang inyo mga banwa. Laptahon ko kamo sa iban nga mga nasyon, kag mangin mamingaw ang inyo duta. 34-35 Samtang ginabihag kamo sa lugar sang inyo mga kaaway kag wala na sing may nagaestar sa inyo duta, makapahuway na ini. Kay sang nagaestar pa kamo sa inyo duta wala gid ninyo ini pagpahuwayi bisan tuig sang inugpahuway sang duta. Pero subong makapahuway na gid ini samtang wala na sing may nagaestar.

36-37 Kamo nga mga nagkalabilin nga buhi sa inaway, nga gindala sang inyo mga kaaway sa ila nga lugar, pahadlukon ko gid. Sa bagay nga bisan sa kalas lang sang dahon nga ginahuyop sang hangin magapalagyo kamo nga daw sa ginalagas kamo nga patyon bisan wala sing may nagalagas sa inyo. Kag samtang nagapalagyo kamo magakalabungguanay kamo kag magakalatumba. Gani indi gid kamo makabato sa inyo mga kaaway. 38 Magakalamatay kamo sa lugar sang inyo mga kaaway. 39 Kag ang mabilin sa inyo amat-amat nga mapatay tungod sang inyo mga sala kag sang mga sala sang inyo mga katigulangan.

40-41 Tungod sang inyo pagluib kag pagsupak sa akon ginkontra ko kamo kag ginpabihag sa lugar sang inyo mga kaaway. Pero kon ituad ninyo ining sala ninyo kag sang inyo mga katigulangan kag untatan na ninyo ang pagpakatig-a, kag batunon ninyo ang silot tungod sang inyo mga sala, 42 tumanon ko ang akon kasugtanan sa inyo mga katigulangan nga si Abraham, Isaac, kag Jacob kag ibalik ko kamo sa inyo duta. 43 Pero kinahanglan nga pahalinon ko anay kamo sa inyo duta bilang bayad ninyo sa inyo mga sala, tungod sang inyo pagsikway sang akon mga sugo kag mga pagsulundan. Kag makapahuway ang duta samtang wala kamo. 44 Pero bisan ginasilutan ko kamo, indi ko kamo pag-isikway sa lugar sang inyo mga kaaway; indi ko kamo paglaglagon nga wala na sing may mabilin sa inyo. Kay indi mahimo nga dulaon ko ang akon kasugtanan sa inyo, tungod kay ako amo ang Ginoo nga inyo Dios. 45 Tumanon ko sa inyo ang akon kasugtanan sa inyo mga katigulangan nga ginpaguwa ko sa Egipto sa pagpakita sang akon gahom sa mga nasyon. Ginhimo ko ini sa inyo mga katigulangan agod mangin Dios nila ako. Ako amo ang Ginoo.

46 Amo ato ang nagkalain-lain nga mga sugo kag mga pagsulundan nga ginhatag sang Ginoo sa mga Israelinhon didto sa Bukid sang Sinai paagi kay Moises.

Footnotes

  1. 26:19 Indi ko gid… duta: sa literal, himuon ko ang mga panganod nga daw salsalon kag ang mga duta nga daw saway.

26 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

13 I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;

28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;

41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.

45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Reward for Obedience

26 “‘Do not make idols(A) or set up an image(B) or a sacred stone(C) for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone(D) in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

“‘Observe my Sabbaths(E) and have reverence for my sanctuary.(F) I am the Lord.

“‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey(G) my commands, I will send you rain(H) in its season,(I) and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.(J) Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want(K) and live in safety in your land.(L)

“‘I will grant peace in the land,(M) and you will lie down(N) and no one will make you afraid.(O) I will remove wild beasts(P) from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. You will pursue your enemies,(Q) and they will fall by the sword before you. Five(R) of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.(S)

“‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers,(T) and I will keep my covenant(U) with you. 10 You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new.(V) 11 I will put my dwelling place[a](W) among you, and I will not abhor you.(X) 12 I will walk(Y) among you and be your God,(Z) and you will be my people.(AA) 13 I am the Lord your God,(AB) who brought you out of Egypt(AC) so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke(AD) and enabled you to walk with heads held high.

Punishment for Disobedience

14 “‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,(AE) 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws(AF) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,(AG) 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever(AH) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.(AI) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.(AJ) 17 I will set my face(AK) against you so that you will be defeated(AL) by your enemies;(AM) those who hate you will rule over you,(AN) and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.(AO)

18 “‘If after all this you will not listen to me,(AP) I will punish(AQ) you for your sins seven times over.(AR) 19 I will break down your stubborn pride(AS) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.(AT) 20 Your strength will be spent in vain,(AU) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.(AV)

21 “‘If you remain hostile(AW) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,(AX) as your sins deserve. 22 I will send wild animals(AY) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few(AZ) in number that your roads will be deserted.(BA)

23 “‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction(BB) but continue to be hostile toward me, 24 I myself will be hostile(BC) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. 25 And I will bring the sword(BD) on you to avenge(BE) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(BF) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. 26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(BG) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

27 “‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me(BH) but continue to be hostile toward me, 28 then in my anger(BI) I will be hostile(BJ) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.(BK) 29 You will eat(BL) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.(BM) 30 I will destroy your high places,(BN) cut down your incense altars(BO) and pile your dead bodies[b] on the lifeless forms of your idols,(BP) and I will abhor(BQ) you. 31 I will turn your cities into ruins(BR) and lay waste(BS) your sanctuaries,(BT) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.(BU) 32 I myself will lay waste the land,(BV) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.(BW) 33 I will scatter(BX) you among the nations(BY) and will draw out my sword(BZ) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,(CA) and your cities will lie in ruins.(CB) 34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate(CC) and you are in the country of your enemies;(CD) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest(CE) 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(CF) will put them to flight.(CG) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.(CH) 37 They will stumble over one another(CI) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.(CJ) 38 You will perish(CK) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.(CL) 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’(CM) sins they will waste away.(CN)

40 “‘But if they will confess(CO) their sins(CP) and the sins of their ancestors(CQ)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, 41 which made me hostile(CR) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts(CS) are humbled(CT) and they pay(CU) for their sin, 42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob(CV) and my covenant with Isaac(CW) and my covenant with Abraham,(CX) and I will remember the land. 43 For the land will be deserted(CY) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected(CZ) my laws and abhorred my decrees.(DA) 44 Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,(DB) I will not reject them or abhor(DC) them so as to destroy them completely,(DD) breaking my covenant(DE) with them. I am the Lord their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember(DF) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt(DG) 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(DH) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.(DI)

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:11 Or my tabernacle
  2. Leviticus 26:30 Or your funeral offerings

Les sanctions de l’alliance

Les bénédictions

26 Vous ne vous fabriquerez pas d’idoles, vous ne vous dresserez ni statue ni stèle, et vous ne mettrez pas dans votre pays de pierre sculptée avec des figures pour vous prosterner devant elle ; car je suis l’Eternel, votre Dieu[a].

Vous observerez les jours de repos que je vous ai prescrits et vous révérerez mon sanctuaire. Je suis l’Eternel.

Si vous suivez mes ordonnances, si vous obéissez à mes commandements et si vous les appliquez[b], je vous donnerai vos pluies en leur saison[c], la terre livrera ses produits et les vergers donneront leurs fruits. Vous serez encore en train de battre le blé quand viendra le temps de la vendange et celle-ci durera jusqu’aux semailles[d] ; vous mangerez du pain à satiété, et vous habiterez en sécurité dans votre pays. Je ferai régner la paix dans le pays ; quand vous vous coucherez, rien ne viendra troubler votre sommeil. Je ferai disparaître du pays les animaux nuisibles, et l’épée ne traversera pas votre territoire. Vous poursuivrez vos ennemis, et ils succomberont devant vous sous les coups de l’épée. Cinq d’entre vous en poursuivront cent, et cent d’entre vous en mettront dix mille en fuite, et vos ennemis tomberont devant vous sous les coups de l’épée. Je prendrai soin de vous, je vous rendrai féconds et vous multiplierai, et je maintiendrai mon alliance avec vous. 10 Vous pourrez vivre longtemps de la récolte précédente, et vous devrez sortir l’ancienne pour engranger la nouvelle. 11 Je mettrai ma demeure au milieu de vous, et je ne vous rejetterai pas. 12 Je marcherai au milieu de vous : je serai votre Dieu et vous serez mon peuple[e]. 13 Je suis l’Eternel votre Dieu, qui vous ai fait sortir d’Egypte et vous ai libérés de l’esclavage. J’ai brisé les barres de votre joug et je vous ai fait marcher la tête haute.

Les malédictions

14 Mais si vous ne m’écoutez pas, et si vous n’appliquez pas tous ces commandements, 15 si vous méprisez mes ordonnances et si vous rejetez mes lois, pour ne plus appliquer tous mes commandements, si vous violez ainsi mon alliance, 16 voici comment j’agirai envers vous : j’interviendrai contre vous pour vous plonger dans l’épouvante et vous envoyer le dépérissement et la fièvre qui consumeront vos yeux et vous mineront. Vous répandrez en vain vos semences, car vos ennemis s’empareront de vos récoltes. 17 Je me retournerai contre vous : vous serez battus par vos ennemis ; ceux qui vous haïssent domineront sur vous ; vous fuirez même sans que personne ne vous poursuive.

18 Si malgré cela vous ne m’écoutez pas encore, je vous infligerai, pour vos péchés, une correction sept fois plus sévère. 19 Je briserai la force dont vous vous enorgueillissez ; je rendrai le ciel au-dessus de vous dur comme du fer, et votre terre comme du bronze. 20 Vous épuiserez vos forces en vains efforts ; vos terres ne produiront plus rien et les vergers ne porteront plus de fruit.

21 Si vous continuez à me résister en refusant de m’écouter, je vous infligerai sept fois plus de coups pour vous punir de vos péchés. 22 Je lâcherai contre vous les bêtes sauvages qui vous raviront vos enfants, déchireront vos bêtes et vous réduiront à un petit nombre, en sorte que vos chemins deviendront déserts[f].

23 Et si, malgré ces châtiments, vous ne vous laissez pas corriger par moi, si vous vous opposez à moi, 24 moi aussi, je m’opposerai à vous et je vous frapperai moi aussi sept fois plus à cause de vos péchés. 25 Je déclencherai des guerres contre vous pour vous punir d’avoir transgressé l’alliance. Si vous vous réfugiez dans vos villes, je déchaînerai la peste au milieu de vous, et vous serez livrés à la merci de l’ennemi. 26 Je vous couperai les vivres, de sorte que dix femmes pourront cuire tout votre pain dans un seul four, elles vous le distribueront par rations pesées, et il n’apaisera pas votre faim.

27 Si malgré cela vous ne m’écoutez pas, si vous continuez à vous opposer à moi, 28 je m’opposerai à vous avec fureur et je vous corrigerai encore sept fois plus à cause de vos péchés. 29 Vous mangerez vos propres enfants. 30 Je dévasterai vos lieux de culte sur les hauteurs, j’abattrai vos autels à parfum, j’entasserai vos cadavres sur les cadavres de vos idoles, et je vous prendrai en aversion. 31 Je réduirai vos villes en ruine, je ravagerai vos sanctuaires, je ne me laisserai pas apaiser par l’odeur de vos sacrifices. 32 Je dévasterai moi-même le pays, de sorte que vos ennemis venus l’occuper en seront stupéfaits. 33 Quant à vous, je vous disperserai parmi des peuples étrangers et je vous poursuivrai avec l’épée, votre pays sera dévasté et vos villes deviendront des monceaux de ruines.

34 Alors la terre jouira d’années de repos durant tout le temps qu’elle sera désolée et que vous serez dans le pays de vos ennemis ; enfin elle chômera et jouira de son repos[g]. 35 Durant toute cette période où elle demeurera dévastée, elle se reposera pour les années de repos dont vous l’aurez frustrée le temps que vous l’aurez habitée.

36 Quant à ceux d’entre vous qui survivront, je plongerai leur cœur dans l’angoisse en exil, chez leurs ennemis ; au seul bruit d’une feuille, ils fuiront comme on fuit devant l’épée de l’ennemi et ils tomberont sans que personne les poursuive. 37 Ils trébucheront l’un sur l’autre comme lorsqu’on fuit devant l’épée sans que personne ne les poursuive, et ils seront incapables de résister à leurs ennemis. 38 Vous périrez chez des peuples étrangers et le pays de vos ennemis vous dévorera. 39 Ceux d’entre vous qui survivront dépériront dans le pays de vos ennemis à cause de leurs péchés et aussi à cause de ceux de leurs ancêtres.

L’Eternel maintiendra son alliance

40 Alors ils reconnaîtront leur faute et celle de leurs ancêtres, qu’ils ont commises en se rebellant contre moi et en s’opposant à moi. 41 C’est à cause de cela qu’à mon tour je m’opposerai à eux et que je les enverrai dans le pays de leurs ennemis. Si alors leur cœur incirconcis s’humilie et qu’ils reconnaissent que leur châtiment est juste[h], 42 j’agirai en fonction de mon alliance avec Jacob, de mon alliance avec Isaac, et de mon alliance avec Abraham, et j’interviendrai en faveur du pays[i]. 43 Car le pays sera abandonné par eux et il jouira du repos, après sa dévastation, pendant leur absence. Ils reconnaîtront la justice de leur châtiment, parce qu’ils auront méprisé mes commandements et rejeté mes lois. 44 Et pourtant, même alors, lorsqu’ils seront dans le pays de leurs ennemis, je ne les rejetterai pas et je ne les prendrai pas en aversion au point de les exterminer et de rompre mon alliance avec eux ; car je suis l’Eternel leur Dieu. 45 J’agirai en leur faveur conformément à l’alliance conclue avec leurs ancêtres que j’ai fait sortir d’Egypte aux yeux des autres peuples pour être leur Dieu : je suis l’Eternel.

Conclusion

46 Telles sont les ordonnances, les articles de droit et les lois que l’Eternel établit entre lui et les Israélites au mont Sinaï, par l’intermédiaire de Moïse.

Footnotes

  1. 26.1 Voir 19.4.
  2. 26.3 Pour les v. 3-5, voir Dt 11.13-15.
  3. 26.4 Les deux saisons de pluies nécessaires à la fertilité du sol : celles d’automne (octobre-décembre) pour ameublir le sol avant les semailles, celles de printemps pour faire grossir les grains et les fruits.
  4. 26.5 La moisson sera si abondante que le battage du blé se prolongera jusqu’en septembre, et la vendange si productive qu’elle durera jusqu’à fin octobre (voir Am 9.13).
  5. 26.12 Cité en 2 Co 6.16 ; Ap 21.3.
  6. 26.22 Les fauves se multiplient dans les campagnes dépeuplées (2 R 17.26 ; Ez 5.17).
  7. 26.34 Voir 2 Ch 36.21.
  8. 26.41 Autres traductions : qu’ils reconnaissent leurs fautes, ou : qu’ils fassent amende honorable pour leurs fautes.
  9. 26.42 Voir Gn 12.7 ; 17.7-8 ; 26.3-4 ; 28.13-14.

Promise of Blessing and Retribution(A)

26 ‘You shall (B)not make idols for yourselves;

neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;

nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;

for I am the Lord your God.

(C)You shall [a]keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:

I am the Lord.

(D)‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,

(E)then I will give you rain in its season, (F)the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

(G)Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;

you shall eat your bread to the full, and (H)dwell in your land safely.

(I)I will give peace in the land, and (J)you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;

I will rid the land of (K)evil[b] beasts,

and (L)the sword will not go through your land.

You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you.

(M)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;

your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

‘For I will (N)look on you favorably and (O)make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My (P)covenant with you.

10 You shall eat the (Q)old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

11 (R)I will set My [c]tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

12 (S)I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.

13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;

I have broken the bands of your (T)yoke and made you walk [d]upright.

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, (U)wasting disease and fever which shall (V)consume the eyes and (W)cause sorrow of heart.

And (X)you shall sow your seed [e]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17 I will [f]set (Y)My face against you, and (Z)you shall be defeated by your enemies.

(AA)Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall (AB)flee when no one pursues you.

18 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you (AC)seven times more for your sins.

19 I will (AD)break the pride of your power;

I (AE)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

20 And your (AF)strength shall be spent in vain;

for your (AG)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 (AH)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 (AI)your highways shall be desolate.

23 ‘And if (AJ)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

24 (AK)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25 And (AL)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities (AM)I will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26 (AN)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, (AO)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 (AP)You[g] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

30 (AQ)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 (AR)cities waste and (AS)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not (AT)smell the fragrance of your [h]sweet aromas.

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

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

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

34 (AW)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 (AX)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

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

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

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

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

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

40 But (BE)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 (BF)uncircumcised hearts are (BG)humbled, and they (BH)accept their guilt—

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

I will (BJ)remember the land.

43 (BK)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 (BL)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, (BM)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 (BN)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, (BO)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt (BP)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”

46 (BQ)These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel (BR)on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 26:2 observe
  2. Leviticus 26:6 wild beasts
  3. Leviticus 26:11 dwelling place
  4. Leviticus 26:13 erect
  5. Leviticus 26:16 without profit
  6. Leviticus 26:17 oppose you
  7. Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
  8. Leviticus 26:31 pleasing
  9. Leviticus 26:36 fear
  10. Leviticus 26:39 rot away