Leviticus 26:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “But if you will not obey me and do not observe all these commandments, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if you will not hearken to Me and will not do all these commandments, American Standard Version (1901) But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; Common English Bible But if you do not obey me and do not carry out all these commands— Catholic Public Domain Version But if you will not listen to me, nor accomplish all of my commandments, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments. |
“Go, inquire of the Lord for me, for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our ancestors did not obey the words of this book to do according to all that is written concerning us.”
‘Thus says the Lord: I will indeed bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.
“But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you and go and serve other gods and worship them,
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.
Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of an evil will. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.
But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy and to carry in no burden through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates; it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.
You shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you
The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.
and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or follow your laws; of all you commanded them to do, they did nothing. Therefore you have made all these disasters come upon them.
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God threatened this place with this disaster,
The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my young women and young men have gone into captivity.
The Lord has done what he purposed; he has carried out his threat; as he ordained long ago, he has demolished without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.
Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us. We did not entreat the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and reflecting on his fidelity.
As they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will discipline them according to the report made to their assembly.
And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.
And it will be that everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly rooted out of the people.’
See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!
But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.
Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them to bring misfortune, as the Lord had warned them and sworn to them, and they were in great distress.
but if you will not heed the voice of the Lord but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and your king.