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24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and for the time it did not rest on your sab-
I will punish you yet seven times for baths when you dwelt in it.
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25 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I
And I will bring a sword against you will send faintness into their hearts
that will execute the vengeance of
the covenant; in the lands of their enemies;
when you are gathered together within the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause
your cities I will send pestilence them to flee;
among you; they shall flee as though fleeing from a
and you shall be delivered into the hand sword, and they shall fall when no
of the enemy. one pursues.
26 When I have cut off your supply of 37 They shall stumble over one another, as
bread, ten women shall bake your it were before a sword, when no one
bread in one oven, and they shall pursues;
bring back your bread by weight, and and you shall have no power to stand
you shall eat and not be satisfied. before your enemies.
38 You shall perish among the nations, and
27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, the land of your enemies shall eat
but walk contrary to Me, you up.
28 then I also will walk contrary to you in 39 And those of you who are left shall
fury; waste away in their iniquity in your
and I, even I, will chastise you seven enemies’ lands;
times for your sins. also in their fathers’ iniquities, which
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You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and are with them, they shall waste away.
you shall eat the flesh of your
daughters. 40 ‘But if they confess their iniquity and the
I will destroy your high places, cut
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down your incense altars, and cast unfaithfulness in which they were
your carcasses on the lifeless forms unfaithful to Me, and that they also
of your idols; have walked contrary to Me,
and My soul shall abhor you. 41 and that I also have walked contrary to
them and have brought them into
the land of their enemies;
if their uncircumcised hearts are hum-
bled, and they accept their guilt—
26:30 high places. These were natural shrines
for the worship of idols. Solomon disobeyed 42 then I will remember My covenant with
God by worshiping Him on the high places Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac
(1 Kin. 3:4); and not long afterward, he was and My covenant with Abraham I
serving the gods of his foreign wives (1 Kin. will remember;
11:1–9). I will remember the land.
43 The land also shall be left empty by
them, and will enjoy its sabbaths
31 while it lies desolate without them;
I will lay your cities waste and bring
your sanctuaries to desolation, and I they will accept their guilt, because
will not smell the fragrance of your they despised My judgments and
sweet aromas. because their soul abhorred My
I will bring the land to desolation, and statutes.
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your enemies who dwell in it shall 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the
be astonished at it. land of their enemies, I will not cast
33 I will scatter you among the nations and them away, nor shall I abhor them,
draw out a sword after you; to utterly destroy them and break
your land shall be desolate and your My covenant with them;
cities waste. for I am the LORD their God.
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Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths But for their sake I will remember the
as long as it lies desolate and you covenant of their ancestors, whom I
are in your enemies’ land; brought out of the land of Egypt in
then the land shall rest and enjoy its the sight of the nations, that I might
sabbaths. be their God:
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest— I am the LORD.’ ”
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