Best to read the whole of the bible verses
for context...not just the one verse btw...
Lev 26....blessings and cursings...
Blessings for Obedience
1gYou shall not make idols for yourselves or
erect an image or pillar, and you shall not
set up a figured stone in your land to bow
down to it, for I am the LORD your God. 2You
shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my
sanctuary: I am the LORD.
3gIf you walk in my statutes and observe my
commandments and do them, 4then I will give
you your rains in their season, and the land
shall yield its increase, and the trees of
the field shall yield their fruit. 5Your
threshing shall last to the time of the
grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall
last to the time for sowing. And you shall
eat your bread to the full and dwell in your
land securely. 6I will give peace in the
land, and you shall lie down, and none shall
make you afraid. And I will remove harmful
beasts from the land, and the sword shall
not go through your land. 7You shall chase
your enemies, and they shall fall before you
by the sword. 8Five of you shall chase a
hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase
ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall
before you by the sword. 9I will turn to you
and make you fruitful and multiply you and
will confirm my covenant with you. 10You
shall eat old store long kept, and you shall
clear out the old to make way for the new.
11I will make my dwellinga among you, and my
soul shall not abhor you. 12And I will walk
among you and will be your God, and you
shall be my people. 13I am the LORD your
God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, that you should not be their slaves.
And I have broken the bars of your yoke and
made you walk erect.
Punishment for Disobedience
14gBut if you will not listen to me and will
not do all these commandments, 15if you
spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors
my rules, so that you will not do all my
commandments, but break my covenant, 16then
I will do this to you: I will visit you with
panic, with wasting disease and fever that
consume the eyes and make the heart ache.
And you shall sow your seed in vain, for
your enemies shall eat it. 17I will set my
face against you, and you shall be struck
down before your enemies. Those who hate you
shall rule over you, and you shall flee when
none pursues you. 18And if in spite of this
you will not listen to me, then I will
discipline you again sevenfold for your
sins, 19and I will break the pride of your
power, and I will make your heavens like
iron and your earth like bronze. 20And your
strength shall be spent in vain, for your
land shall not yield its increase, and the
trees of the land shall not yield their
fruit.
21gThen if you walk contrary to me and will
not listen to me, I will continue striking
you, sevenfold for your sins. 22And I will
let loose the wild beasts against you, which
shall bereave you of your children and
destroy your livestock and make you few in
number, so that your roads shall be
deserted.
23gAnd if by this discipline you are not
turned to me but walk contrary to me, 24then
I also will walk contrary to you, and I
myself will strike you sevenfold for your
sins. 25And I will bring a sword upon you,
that shall execute vengeance for the
covenant. And if you gather within your
cities, I will send pestilence among you,
and you shall be delivered into the hand of
the enemy. 26When I break your supplyb of
bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a
single oven and shall dole out your bread
again by weight, and you shall eat and not
be satisfied.
***27gBut if in spite of this you will not
listen to me, but walk contrary to me,
28then I will walk contrary to you in fury,
and I myself will discipline you sevenfold
for your sins. 29You shall eat the flesh of
your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of
your daughters.****
(Btw...sevenfold basically means...
completely)
30And I will destroy your high places and
cut down your incense altars and cast your
dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your
idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31And I
will lay your cities waste and will make
your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not
smell your pleasing aromas. 32And I myself
will devastate the land, so that your
enemies who settle in it shall be appalled
at it. 33And I will scatter you among the
nations, and I will unsheathe the sword
after you, and your land shall be a
desolation, and your cities shall be a
waste.
34gThen the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as
long as it lies desolate, while you are in
your enemiesf land; then the land shall
rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35As long as
it lies desolate it shall have rest, the
rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths
when you were dwelling in it. 36And as for
those of you who are left, I will send
faintness into their hearts in the lands of
their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf
shall put them to flight, and they shall
flee as one flees from the sword, and they
shall fall when none pursues. 37They shall
stumble over one another, as if to escape a
sword, though none pursues. And you shall
have no power to stand before your enemies.
38And you shall perish among the nations,
and the land of your enemies shall eat you
up. 39And those of you who are left shall
rot away in your enemiesf lands because of
their iniquity, and also because of the
iniquities of their fathers they shall rot
away like them.
40gBut if they confess their iniquity and
the iniquity of their fathers in their
treachery that they committed against me,
and also in walking contrary to me, 41so
that I walked contrary to them and brought
them into the land of their enemies—if then
their uncircumcised heart is humbled and
they make amends for their iniquity, 42then
I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and
I will remember my covenant with Isaac and
my covenant with Abraham, and I will
remember the land. 43But the land shall be
abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths
while it lies desolate without them, and
they shall make amends for their iniquity,
because they spurned my rules and their soul
abhorred my statutes. 44Yet for all that,
when they are in the land of their enemies,
I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor
them so as to destroy them utterly and break
my covenant with them, for I am the LORD
their God. 45But I will for their sake
remember the covenant with their
forefathers, 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.h
46These are the statutes and rules and laws
that the LORD made between himself and the
people of Israel through Moses on Mount
Sinai.
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Jeremiah 19....
The Broken Flask
1Thus says the LORD, gGo, buy a potterfs
earthenware flask, and take some of the
elders of the people and some of the elders
of the priests, 2and go out to the Valley of
the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the
Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words
that I tell you. 3You shall say, eHear the
word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and
inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD
of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am
bringing such disaster upon this place that
the ears of everyone who hears of it will
tingle. 4Because the people have forsaken me
and have profaned this place by making
offerings in it to other gods whom neither
they nor their fathers nor the kings of
Judah have known; and because they have
filled this place with the blood of
innocents, 5and have built the high places
of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as
burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not
command or decree, nor did it come into my
mind— 6therefore, behold, days are coming,
declares the LORD, when this place shall no
more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the
Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
7And in this place I will make void the
plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause
their people to fall by the sword before
their enemies, and by the hand of those who
seek their life. I will give their dead
bodies for food to the birds of the air and
to the beasts of the earth. 8And I will make
this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at.
Everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and will hiss because of all its wounds.
***9And I will make them eat the flesh of
their sons and their daughters, and everyone
shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the
siege and in the distress, with which their
enemies and those who seek their life
afflict them.f***
10gThen you shall break the flask in the
sight of the men who go with you, 11and
shall say to them, eThus says the LORD of
hosts: So will I break this people and this
city, as one breaks a potterfs vessel, so
that it can never be mended. Men shall bury
in Topheth because there will be no place
else to bury. 12Thus will I do to this
place, declares the LORD, and to its
inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.
13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of
the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose
roofs offerings have been offered to all the
host of heaven, and drink offerings have
been poured out to other gods—shall be
defiled like the place of Topheth.fh
14Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the
LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood
in the court of the LORDfs house and said to
all the people: 15gThus says the LORD of
hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am
bringing upon this city and upon all its
towns all the disaster that I have
pronounced against it, because they have
stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my
words.h
Lam 4....
The Holy Stones Lie Scattered
1How the gold has grown dim,
how the pure gold is changed!
The holy stones lie scattered
at the head of every street.
2The precious sons of Zion,
worth their weight in fine gold,
how they are regarded as earthen pots,
the work of a potterfs hands!
3Even jackals offer the breast;
they nurse their young;
but the daughter of my people has become
cruel,like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4The tongue of the nursing infant sticks
to the roof of its mouth for thirst;
the children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6For the chastisementa of the daughter of
my people has been greater
than the punishment of Sodom,
which was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her.c
7Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their formd was like sapphire.
8Now their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
9Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
****10The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of the daughter
of my people.****
11The LORD gave full vent to his wrath;
he poured out his hot anger,
and he kindled a fire in Zion
that consumed its foundations.
12The kings of the earth did not believe,
nor any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
the gates of Jerusalem.
13This was for the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
who shed in the midst of her
the blood of the righteous.
14They wandered, blind, through the streets;
they were so defiled with blood
that no one was able to touch
their garments.
15gAway! Unclean!h people cried at them.
gAway! Away! Do not touch!h
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
people said among the nations,
gThey shall stay with us no longer.h
16The LORD himselff has scattered them;
he will regard them no more;
no honor was shown to the priests,
no favor to the elders.
17Our eyes failed, ever watching
vainly for help;in our watching we watched
for a nation which could not save.
18They dogged our steps
so that we could not walk in our streets;
our end drew near; our days were numbered,
for our end had come.
19Our pursuers were swifter
than the eagles in the heavens;
they chased us on the mountains;
they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
20The breath of our nostrils, the LORDfs
anointed,was captured in their pits,
of whom we said, gUnder his shadow
we shall live among the nations.h
21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
you who dwell in the land of Uz;
but to you also the cup shall pass;
you shall become drunk and strip yourself
bare.
22The punishment of your iniquity, O
daughter of Zion, is accomplished;
he will keep you in exile no longer;
but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he
will punish;he will uncover your sins.
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