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Blessings of Obedience
‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
The Blessings of Obedience
Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.
Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.
‘You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah.
‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out,
If ye walk in my statutes, and observe my commandments and do them,
then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
then I will give your rain in the season thereof, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit;
‘Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.
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 securely.
‘I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.
And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land.
‘But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;
And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword;
five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
and five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall beside you by the sword.
‘So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
And I will turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
‘You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new.
And ye shall eat old store, and clear away the old because of the new.
‘Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.
And I will set my habitation among you; and my soul shall not abhor you;
‘I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.
and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be to me a people.
‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
I am Jehovah your God, who 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 walk upright.
Penalties of Disobedience
‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,
Punishments for Disobedience
But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments,
But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments,
if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant,
I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.
I also will do this unto you -- I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
‘I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
‘If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,
‘I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze,
‘Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
‘If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins.
‘I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.
And I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate.
‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me,
then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.
then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
‘I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
‘When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
And if for this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary unto me,
then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.
then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins.
‘Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
‘I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.
And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
‘I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours.
‘I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.
And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it.
‘You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste.
And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste.
‘Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, when ye are in your enemies' land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
‘All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.
All the days of the desolation it shall rest, [the days in] which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.
‘As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.
And as to those that remain of you -- I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth;
‘They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies.
and they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
‘But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.
And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
‘So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them.
And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.
‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me —
God Remembers Those who Repent
And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies — or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity,
so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.
I will 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.
‘For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes.
For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
‘Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God.
‘But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, 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.’”
But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.