Thematic Bible: The threatened punishment of israel was sevenfold

If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins. I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement. Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. read more.
If 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.