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Leviticus 26:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I will punish you terribly, and you will be ruined. You will be struck with incurable diseases and with fever that leads to blindness and depression. Your enemies will eat the crops you plant,

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then others can eat my harvest and uproot my crops.

If I let anyone from your family be a priest, his life will be full of sadness and sorrow. But most of the men in your family will die a violent death!

You won't harvest what you plant or use the oil from your olive trees or drink the wine from grapes you grow.

The LORD said: Ezekiel, son of man, the people of Israel are complaining that the punishment for their sins is more than they can stand. They have lost all hope for survival, and they blame me.

This nation will eat your crops and livestock; they will leave no fruit on your vines or trees. And although you feel safe behind thick walls, your towns will be destroyed and your children killed.

So he cut their lives short and made them terrified.

They will take your cattle, sheep, goats, grain, wine, and olive oil, then leave you to starve.

It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God!

Here is what the LORD will do to those who attack Jerusalem: while they are standing there, he will make their flesh rot and their eyes fall from their sockets and their tongues drop out.

You harvest less than you plant, you never have enough to eat or drink, your clothes don't keep you warm, and your wages are stored in bags full of holes.

You will be afraid, and you will bring fear to your friends as well. You will see enemies kill them in battle. Then I will make the king of Babylonia take everyone in Judah prisoner, killing some and dragging the rest away to Babylonia.

There will be more widows in Judah than grains of sand on a beach. A surprise attack at midday! And the mothers in Jerusalem mourn for their children.

My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out for nothing!

How will you escape being captured or killed? The Lord is still angry, and he isn't through with you yet!

When news reached the royal palace that Syria had joined forces with Israel, King Ahaz and everyone in Judah were so terrified that they shook like trees in a storm.

My enemies said, “Find some worthless fools to accuse him of a crime.

They will be terrified, suddenly swept away and no longer there.

whose shining tips go straight through their bodies. They will be trapped by terror,

Terror strikes and pursues from every side.

One day an angel from the LORD went to the town of Ophrah and sat down under the big tree that belonged to Joash, a member of the Abiezer clan. Joash's son Gideon was nearby, threshing grain in a shallow pit, where he could not be seen by the Midianites.

Young and old alike will be killed in the streets and terrified at home.

Then he said, “I am the LORD your God, and I cure your diseases. If you obey me by doing right and by following my laws and teachings, I won't punish you with the diseases I sent on the Egyptians.”

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

He places a curse on the home of everyone who is evil, but he blesses the home of every good person.

The LORD has given his word and made this promise: “Never again will I give to your enemies the grain and grapes for which you struggled.

I will punish you in four different ways: You will be killed in war and your bodies dragged off by dogs, your flesh will be eaten by birds, and your bones will be chewed on by wild animals.

You won't take off your turbans and your sandals. You won't cry or mourn, but all day long you will go around groaning because of your sins.

I will punish your descendants and rub your faces in the manure from your animal sacrifices, and then be done with you.

you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them. You have built expensive homes, but you won't enjoy them; you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.




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