Leviticus 26:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Appoint

Psalm 109:6

Terror

Consumption

Exodus 15:26

Deuteronomy 28:21

Consume

Zechariah 14:12

And ye shall

For your

Isaiah 10:4

General references

Exodus 9:2

Isaiah 65:21

Bible References

Appoint

Appoint an evil person over him; may an accuser stand at his right side.

Terror

Among those nations you'll have no rest. There'll be no resting place for the soles of your feet. Instead, the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a despairing spirit.

Outside, the sword will cause bereavement; within, there will be terror for the young man and virgin alike, also for the nursing infant and the aged man."

"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless.

"He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels.

It will impale him and come out through his back; the point will glisten as it protrudes through his gall bladder, and he will be terrified.

How desolate they quickly become, completely destroyed by calamities.

When it was reported to the house of David, "Aram has joined forces with Ephraim!" the heart of the people of Ahaz trembled like forest trees in a windstorm.

I'll make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At noontime I'll send a destroyer against the mother of a young man. I'll cause terror and anguish to come to her unexpectedly.

For this is what the LORD says: "Look, I'm going to make you a terror to yourself and to all your loved ones. They'll fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will see it. I'll give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He will take them into exile to Babylon, and he will execute them with swords.

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

Consumption

There the LORD presented to them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them. He said, "If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what he sees to be right, listen to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then I won't inflict on you all the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians, because I am the LORD your healer."

The LORD will cause you to be ill with long-lasting diseases until you are wiped out from the land that you are entering to possess.

Consume

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch. You won't be able to approach them at all, and you'll be powerless to help.

Any of you whom I don't eliminate from serving at my altar will grow tired from weeping, and their souls will grieve. All the increase of your family will die by violence.

So he made their days end in futility, and their years with sudden terror.

""Now, Son of Man, tell this to the house of Israel: "You keep saying, "Our crimes and sins burden us so much that we're rotting away, so how can we keep on living?"'

"This will be the plague with which the LORD inflicts all of the people who have attacked Jerusalem: he will cause their flesh to rot away, even while they're standing on their feet. He will cause their eyes to rot away in their sockets, and their tongues to rot away in their mouths.

And ye shall

"A people whom you don't know will devour what your land and labor produces. You'll be only oppressed and discouraged continuously

Whenever the Israelis sowed their crops, the Midianites, the Amalekites, and certain groups from the east would come up and invade them.

what I've planted, let another eat or let my crops be uprooted."

They won't build for others to inhabit; they won't plant for others to eat for like the lifetime of a tree, so will the lifetime of my people be, and my chosen ones will long enjoy the work of their hands.

"They'll devour your harvest and your food. They'll devour your sons and your daughters. They'll devour your vines and your fig trees. With their swords they'll batter down your fortified cities in which you trust.

They have sown wheat, but they have harvested thorns. They have tired themselves out, but they don't show a profit. Now be disappointed about your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

You'll plant, but you won't reap. You'll crush the olive harvest, but you'll have no oil to anoint yourself. You'll tread out the grapes, but you'll never drink wine.

You have sowed much but have reaped little. You have eaten but don't have enough to become satisfied. You have drunk but don't have enough to become intoxicated. You have clothed yourself but don't have enough to keep warm. And the hired laborer deposits his salary in a bag full of holes!'"

For your

so you won't have to crouch among those in chains or fall among the slain? "Yet for all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike."

General references

But if you refuse to let them go and continue to hold them,

People will build houses and live in them; They'll plant vineyards and eat their fruit.