⁴ I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of ^(A)him who swears falsely by my name. And ^(B)it shall remain in his house and ^(C)consume it, both timber and stones.”

^2 (A)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send ^(B)the curse upon you and I will curse ^(C)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Punishment for Disobedience

^14 (A)“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, ¹⁵ if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but ^(B)break my covenant, ¹⁶ then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with ^(C)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And ^(D)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ I will ^(E)set my face against you, and ^(F)you shall be struck down before your enemies. ^(G)Those who hate you shall rule over you, and ^(H)you shall flee when none pursues you. ¹⁸ And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again ^(I)sevenfold for your sins, ¹⁹ and I will break ^(J)the pride of your power, and I ^(K)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. ²⁰ And ^(L)your strength shall be spent in vain, for ^(M)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

^21 (N)“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. ²² And ^(O)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 ^(P)your roads shall be deserted.

²³ “And ^(Q)if by this discipline you are not turned to me ^(R)but walk contrary to me, ^24 (S)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. ²⁵ And ^(T)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, ^(U)I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. ^26 (V)When I break your supply^[a] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and ^(W)you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷ “But ^(X)if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, ²⁸ then I will walk contrary to you ^(Y)in fury, and I myself will discipline you ^(Z)sevenfold for your sins. ^29 (AA)You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. ³⁰ And ^(AB)I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and ^(AC)cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. ³¹ And I will ^(AD)lay your cities waste and will ^(AE)make your sanctuaries desolate, and ^(AF)I will not smell your pleasing aromas. ³² And ^(AG)I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^(AH)appalled at it. ³³ And ^(AI)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.

^34 (AJ)“Then the land shall enjoy^[b] its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. ³⁵ As 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. ³⁶ And as for those of you who are left, ^(AK)I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^(AL)sound of a ^(AM)driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. ³⁷ They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And ^(AN)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. ³⁸ And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. ³⁹ And those of you who are left shall ^(AO)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.