Additional Blessings of Obedience 1 CPDV I am the Lord your God. You shall not make for yourselves an idol or a graven image. Neither shall you erect a monument, or set up a conspicuous stone in your land, in order that you may adore it. For I am the Lord your God. BSB BSB: “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
2 CPDV Observe my Sabbaths, and be fearful toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord. BSB BSB: You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
3 CPDV If you will walk in my precepts, and observe my commandments, and accomplish them, I will give to you rain in its time, BSB BSB: If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,
4 CPDV and the ground shall bring forth its seedlings, and the trees shall be filled again with fruit. BSB BSB: I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
5 CPDV The threshing of the harvest shall last until the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing. And you shall eat your bread to fullness, and you shall live in your land without fear. BSB BSB: Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.
6 CPDV I will give peace to your most distant regions. You will sleep, and there will be no one to strike you with terror. I will take away harmful wild beasts, and the sword will not cross your borders. BSB BSB: And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
7 CPDV You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall down at the sight of you. BSB BSB: You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.
8 CPDV Five of yours will pursue a hundred foreigners, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall by the sword in your sight. BSB BSB: Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
9 CPDV I will look with favor upon you, and I will cause you to increase; you will be multiplied, and I will confirm my covenant with you. BSB BSB: I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.
10 CPDV You will eat the oldest of what is old, and, when what is new arrives, you will throw away what is old. BSB BSB: You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.
11 CPDV I will set my tabernacle in your midst, and my soul will not cast you out. BSB BSB: And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.
12 CPDV I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. BSB BSB: I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
13 CPDV I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of the Egyptians, lest you serve them, and who broke the chains around your necks, so that you would walk upright. BSB BSB: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
Punishments for Disobedience (Leviticus 20:1–9; Deuteronomy 28:15–68)
14 CPDV But if you will not listen to me, nor accomplish all of my commandments, BSB BSB: If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,
15 CPDV if you despise my laws, and disdain my judgments, so that you do not accomplish those things which have been established by me, and so that you lead my covenant away into nullification, BSB BSB: and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
16 CPDV then I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with destitution, and burning heat, which will waste away your eyes, and consume your lives. In vain will you sow your seed, which will be devoured by your enemies. BSB BSB: then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
17 CPDV I will set my face against you, and you will fall down before your enemies, and you will be subjugated to those who hate you. You will flee, though no one pursues. BSB BSB: And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
18 CPDV But if you will not be obedient to me in this way, then I will add sevenfold to your chastisement, because of your sins. BSB BSB: And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
19 CPDV And I will crush the pride in your hardness, and I will give to you heaven above like iron, and the earth below like brass. BSB BSB: I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
20 CPDV Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit. BSB BSB: and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.
22 CPDV And I will send upon you the wild beasts of the field, which will consume you and your cattle, and which will reduce everything to paucity, and cause your roadways to become desolate. BSB BSB: I will send wild animals against you to rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and reduce your numbers, until your roads lie desolate.
23 CPDV But if you are not willing to receive discipline in this way, and you still walk as an adversary to me, BSB BSB: And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
24 CPDV likewise, I will advance against you as an adversary, and I will strike you seven times, because of your sins. BSB BSB: then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
25 CPDV And I will lead over you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you will have fled into the cities, I will send a pestilence into your midst, and you will be delivered into the hands of your enemies. BSB BSB: And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 CPDV After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled. BSB BSB: When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
27 CPDV Then, if you will not listen to me through these things, and you still walk against me, BSB BSB: But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
28 CPDV then I also will advance against you, with an opposing fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues, because of your sins: BSB BSB: then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
29 CPDV so much so that you will eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters. BSB BSB: You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
30 CPDV I will destroy your high places, and I will break apart your false images. You will fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul will abominate you: BSB BSB: I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
31 CPDV so much so that I will reduce your cities to a wilderness, and I will make your Sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer accept the most sweet odors. BSB BSB: I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
32 CPDV And I will utterly ruin your land, and your enemies shall be stupefied at it, when they will have become its inhabitants. BSB BSB: And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.
33 CPDV Then I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will unsheathe the sword after you. And your land will be deserted, and your cities will be demolished. BSB BSB: But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
34 CPDV Then the land will be pleased by her Sabbaths, throughout all the days of her solitude. So, while you will be BSB BSB: Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35 CPDV in the land of the enemy, she will worship and rest in the Sabbath of her solitude, because she will not have rested in your Sabbaths, when you lived in her. BSB BSB: As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
36 CPDV And whoever of you will remain, I will send terror into their hearts in the regions of their enemies. The sound of a flying leaf will terrify them, and so they will flee, as if from the sword. They will fall, though no one pursues. BSB BSB: As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
37 CPDV And they will each fall upon their brothers, as if they were fleeing from wars; no one among you will dare to resist your foes. BSB BSB: They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.
38 CPDV You will perish among the Gentiles, and the land of the enemy will consume you. BSB BSB: You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
39 CPDV But if some few of these still remain, they shall waste away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they will be afflicted, because of the sins of their fathers and their own sins, BSB BSB: Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
God Remembers Those Who Repent 40 CPDV until they confess their iniquities, and those of their ancestors, by which they have transgressed against me and walked as adversaries to me. BSB BSB: But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
41 CPDV Therefore, I also will walk against them, and I will lead them into a hostile land, until their uncircumcised mind shall be ashamed. Then shall they pray on behalf of their impiety. BSB BSB: and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
42 CPDV And I will remember my covenant, which I formed with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will also remember the land, BSB BSB: then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
43 CPDV which, when she will be left behind by them, shall be pleased by her Sabbaths, enduring solitude because of them. Yet truly, they shall pray for their sins, because they cast aside my judgments, and they despised my laws. BSB BSB: For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
44 CPDV And even after so much, when they were in the land of their enemy, I did not cast them off entirely, and I did not so despise them that they would be consumed, nor so that I would nullify my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God. BSB BSB: Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
45 CPDV And I will remember my original covenant, when I led them away from the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, so as to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord has granted between himself and the sons of Israel, on mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses. BSB BSB: But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, 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.”