Parallel Verses
NET Bible
I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
New American Standard Bible
I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
then I will do this to you: I will bring terror
International Standard Version
then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant.
A Conservative Version
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
American Standard Version
I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Amplified
I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption, and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to languish also. And you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat what you plant.
Bible in Basic English
This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
Surely I will do this to you, and I appointed over you terror, consumption, and burning fever, destroying the eyes and consuming the soul: and ye sowed in vain your seed, and your enemies shall eat it.
King James 2000
I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I {in turn} will do this to you: then I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed {in vain}, and your enemies shall eat it.
Modern King James verseion
I will also do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, consumption, and burning fever, consuming the eyes and causing sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
then I will do this again unto you: I will visit you with vexations, swelling, and fevers, that shall make your eyes dazzle; and with sorrows of heart. And ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
New Heart English Bible
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
The Emphasized Bible
I also, will do this unto you - I will set over you, for terror, consumption and fever, Causing the eyes to fail and the soul to pine away, - And ye shall sow, in vain, your seed, for it shall be eaten by your foes.
Webster
I also will do this to 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.
World English Bible
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
Youngs Literal Translation
I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;
Themes
Adversity » Sometimes the result of sin and folly
Chastisement » Who the lord chastens
Desolation » Why desolation comes
Disease » Sent as a judgment » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
Disease » Instances of » Threatened as judgments
Diseases » Disease, different forms of » Fever
Diseases » Other diseases mentioned » Consumption
Diseases » Mentioned in scripture » Consumption
Diseases » Other diseases mentioned » Ague
Diseases » Mentioned in scripture » Ague
Disobedience to God » Denunciations against
unholy Fear » The wicked judicially filled with
Judgments » Are sent, as punishment for » Disobedience to God
Judgments » Denounced against disobedience
Pestilence » Who the lord sends pestilence upon
Pestilence » Sent as a judgment
Protection » Withdrawn from the » Disobedient
Punishment » Design of » To secure obedience
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Sickness
Rebellion against God » Punishment for
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
Seed » The jews punished by » Its increase being consumed by enemies
Sickness » Sometimes sent as a judgment for sin
Sickness » Often sent as a punishment of sin
Sin » Secret » Sickness caused by
The wicked » Appointed by God corrupt » Threatenings against
Topics
Interlinear
Paqad
Kalah
`ayin
Nephesh
Zera`
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 26:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Punishment For Disobedience
15 if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant -- 16 I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
Names
Cross References
Job 31:8
then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.
1 Samuel 2:33
Any one of you that I do not cut off from my altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and will cause you grief. All of those born to your family will die in the prime of life.
Deuteronomy 28:21-22
The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
Judges 6:3-6
Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
Psalm 78:33
So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.
Jeremiah 5:17
They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.
Ezekiel 33:10
"And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'This is what you have said: "Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?"'
Micah 6:15
You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.
Exodus 15:26
He said, "If you will diligently obey the Lord your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the Lord, am your healer."
Deuteronomy 28:32-35
Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.
Deuteronomy 28:65-67
Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
Deuteronomy 32:25
The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.
Judges 6:11
The Lord's angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash's son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.
Job 15:20-21
All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.
Job 18:11
Terrors frighten him on all sides and dog his every step.
Job 20:25
When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.
Psalm 73:19
How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
Psalm 109:6
Appoint an evil man to testify against him! May an accuser stand at his right side!
Isaiah 7:2
It was reported to the family of David, "Syria has allied with Ephraim." They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
Isaiah 10:4
You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners, or to fall among those who have been killed. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
Isaiah 65:22-24
No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.
Jeremiah 12:13
My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.
Jeremiah 20:4
For the Lord says, 'I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword.
Haggai 1:6
You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.'"
Zechariah 14:12
But this will be the nature of the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.
Hebrews 10:31
It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.