Leviticus 26 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Blessings for Obedience

(Deu 7:12–24; 28:1–68 )

Lev 26:1“You 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.

Lev 26:2

Lev 26:2You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

Lev 26:3

Lev 26:3“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,

Lev 26:4

Lev 26:4then 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.

Lev 26:5

Lev 26:5Your 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.

Lev 26:6

Lev 26:6I 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.

Lev 26:7

Lev 26:7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

Lev 26:8

Lev 26:8Five 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.

Lev 26:9

Lev 26:9I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

Lev 26:10

Lev 26:10You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.

Lev 26:11

Lev 26:11I will make my dwelling[fn] among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.

Lev 26:12

Lev 26:12And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.

Lev 26:13

Lev 26:13I 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

Lev 26:14

Lev 26:14“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,

Lev 26:15

Lev 26:15if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

Lev 26:16

Lev 26:16then 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.

Lev 26:17

Lev 26:17I 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.

Lev 26:18

Lev 26:18And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,

Lev 26:19

Lev 26:19and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

Lev 26:20

Lev 26:20And 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.

Lev 26:21

Lev 26:21“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.

Lev 26:22

Lev 26:22And 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.

Lev 26:23

Lev 26:23“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

Lev 26:24

Lev 26:24then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

Lev 26:25

Lev 26:25And 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.

Lev 26:26

Lev 26:26When I break your supply[fn] 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.

Lev 26:27

Lev 26:27“But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,

Lev 26:28

Lev 26:28then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.

Lev 26:29

Lev 26:29You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

Lev 26:30

Lev 26:30And 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.

Lev 26:31

Lev 26:31And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.

Lev 26:32

Lev 26:32And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.

Lev 26:33

Lev 26:33And 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.

Lev 26:34

Lev 26:34“Then the land shall enjoy[fn] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.

Lev 26:35

Lev 26:35As 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.

Lev 26:36

Lev 26:36And 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.

Lev 26:37

Lev 26:37They 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.

Lev 26:38

Lev 26:38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

Lev 26:39

Lev 26:39And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

Lev 26:40

Lev 26:40“But 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,

Lev 26:41

Lev 26:41so 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,

Lev 26:42

Lev 26:42then 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.

Lev 26:43

Lev 26:43But 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.

Lev 26:44

Lev 26:44Yet 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.

Lev 26:45

Lev 26:45But 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.”

Lev 26:46

Lev 26:46These 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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(26:11)

Hebrew tabernacle

(26:26)

Hebrew staff

(26:34)

Or pay for; twice in this verse; also verse 43

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