Thematic Bible
Leviticus 26:1 (show verse)
‘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.
Leviticus 26:2 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:3 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:4 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:5 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:6 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:7 (show verse)
But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;
Leviticus 26:8 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:9 (show verse)
So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
Leviticus 26:10 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:11 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:12 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:13 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:14 (show verse)
‘But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments,
Leviticus 26:15 (show verse)
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,
Leviticus 26:16 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:17 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:18 (show verse)
If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:19 (show verse)
I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
Leviticus 26:20 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:21 (show verse)
‘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.
Leviticus 26:22 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:23 (show verse)
‘And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
Leviticus 26:24 (show verse)
then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:25 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:26 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:27 (show verse)
‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
Leviticus 26:28 (show verse)
then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:29 (show verse)
Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.
Leviticus 26:30 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:31 (show verse)
I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.
Leviticus 26:32 (show verse)
I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it.
Leviticus 26:33 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:34 (show verse)
‘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.
Leviticus 26:35 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:36 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:37 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:38 (show verse)
But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies’ land will consume you.
Leviticus 26:39 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:40 (show verse)
‘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—
Leviticus 26:41 (show verse)
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,
Leviticus 26:42 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:43 (show verse)
Leviticus 26:44 (show verse)
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.
Leviticus 26:45 (show verse)
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.’”