CHAPTER 26
You must not
make
idols
for yourselves
or set up
a carved image
or sacred pillar,
or place
a sculpted
stone
in your land
to bow down
to it,
for
I
am the LORD
your God.
I will give
you rains
in their season,
and the land
will yield
its produce,
and the trees
of the field
will bear
their fruit.
Your
threshing
will continue
until the grape harvest,
and the grape harvest
will continue
until sowing time;
you will have your fill of
food
to eat
and will dwell
securely
in your land.
And I will give
peace
to the land,
and you will lie down
with nothing
to fear.
I will rid
the land
of dangerous
animals,
and no
sword
will pass
through your land.
Five
of
you will pursue
a hundred,
and a hundred
of you
will chase
ten thousand,
and your enemies
will fall
by the sword
before you.
I will turn
toward you
and make you fruitful
and multiply
you,
and I will fulfill
My covenant
with you.
You will still be eating
the old
supply of grain
when you need to clear it out
to make room for
the new.
I
am the LORD
your God,
who
brought
you
out of the land
of Egypt,
that you would no longer be
slaves
to the Egyptians.
I broke
the bars
of your yoke
and enabled you to walk
in uprightness.
and if
you reject
My statutes,
despise
My ordinances,
and neglect
to carry out
all
My commandments,
and so break
My covenant,
then
this is what
I
will do
to you:
I will bring
upon you
sudden terror,
wasting disease,
and
fever
that will destroy
your sight
and drain
your life.
You will sow
your seed
in vain,
because your enemies
will eat it.
And I will set
My face
against you,
so that you will be defeated
by
your enemies.
Those who hate you
will rule
over you,
and you will flee
when no one
pursues
you.
And if
after
all this
you will not
obey
Me,
I will proceed
to punish
you
sevenfold
for
your sins.
and your strength
will be spent
in vain.
For your land
will not
yield
its
produce,
and the trees
of the land
will not
bear
their fruit.
If
you walk
in hostility
toward Me
and refuse
to obey Me,
I will multiply
your plagues
seven times,
according to your sins.
I will send
wild
animals
against you
to rob you of your children,
destroy
your livestock,
and reduce
your numbers,
until your roads
lie desolate.
And if
in spite of these
things you do not
accept My discipline,
but continue to walk
in hostility
toward Me,
And I will bring
a sword
against you
to execute
the vengeance
of the covenant.
Though you withdraw
into
your cities,
I will send
a pestilence
among you,
and you will be delivered
into the hand
of the enemy.
When I cut off
your supply
of bread,
ten
women
will bake
your bread
in a single
oven
and dole out
your bread
by weight,
so that you will eat
but not
be satisfied.
I will destroy
your high places,
cut down
your incense altars,
and heap
your dead bodies
on
the remains
of your idols;
and My soul
will despise
you.
I will reduce
your cities
to rubble
and lay waste
to your sanctuaries,
and I will refuse
to smell
the pleasing
aroma of your sacrifices.
But
I will scatter
you among the nations
and will draw out
a sword
after you
as your land
becomes
desolate
and your cities
are laid
waste.
Then
the land
shall enjoy
its
Sabbaths
all
the days
it lies desolate,
while you
are in the land
of your enemies.
At that time
the land
will rest
and enjoy
its
Sabbaths.
As long as
it lies desolate,
the land will have the rest
it did not
receive
during the Sabbaths
when you lived
in it.
As for those of you who survive,
I will send
a faintness
into their hearts
in the lands
of their enemies,
so that even the sound
of a windblown
leaf
will put them to flight.
And they will flee
as one flees
the sword,
and fall
when no one
pursues them.
They will stumble
over one
another
as before
the sword,
though no one
is behind them.
So
you will not
be
able to stand
against
your enemies.
Those of you who survive
in the lands
of your enemies
will waste away
in their iniquity
and
will decay
in the sins
of their fathers.
But if they will confess
their iniquity
and that
of their fathers
in the unfaithfulness
that
they practiced against Me,
by which
they have also walked
in hostility
toward Me—
and
I
acted
with hostility
toward
them and brought
them into the land
of their enemies—
and
if their uncircumcised
hearts
will be humbled
and they will make amends
for their iniquity,
then I will remember
My covenant
with Jacob
and
My covenant
with Isaac
and My covenant
with Abraham,
and I will remember
the land.
For the land
will be abandoned
by them,
and it will enjoy
its Sabbaths
by lying desolate
without them.
And they
will pay the penalty
for their iniquity,
because
they rejected
My ordinances
and abhorred
My statutes.
Yet
in spite of
this,
when they are
in the land
of their enemies,
I will not
reject
or
despise them
so as to destroy them
and break
My covenant
with them;
for
I
am the LORD
their God.
But for their sake
I will remember
the covenant
with their fathers,
whom
I brought out
of the land
of Egypt
in the sight
of the nations,
that I might be
their God.
I
am the LORD.”
These
are the statutes,
ordinances,
and laws
that
the LORD
established
between
Himself and the Israelites
through
Moses
on Mount
Sinai.