Leviticus 26 - New King James Version (NKJV)

Promise of Blessing and Retribution^(A)

26 ‘You shall ^(B)not make idols for yourselves;

neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves;

nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it;

for I am the Lord your God.

^{2 (C)}You shall ^[a]keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary:

I am the Lord.

^{3 (D)}‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them,

^{4 (E)}then I will give you rain in its season, ^(F)the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

^{5 (G)}Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;

you shall eat your bread to the full, and ^(H)dwell in your land safely.

^{6 (I)}I will give peace in the land, and ^(J)you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;

I will rid the land of ^(K)evil^[b] beasts,

and ^(L)the sword will not go through your land.

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

^{8 (M)}Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;

your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

⁹ ‘For I will ^(N)look on you favorably and ^(O)make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My ^(P)covenant with you.

¹⁰ You shall eat the ^(Q)old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

^{11 (R)}I will set My ^[c]tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you.

^{12 (S)}I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people.

¹³ I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;

I have broken the bands of your ^(T)yoke and made you walk ^[d]upright.

¹⁴ ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

¹⁵ and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

¹⁶ I also will do this to you:

I will even appoint terror over you, ^(U)wasting disease and fever which shall ^(V)consume the eyes and ^(W)cause sorrow of heart.

And ^(X)you shall sow your seed ^[e]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

¹⁷ I will ^[f]set ^(Y)My face against you, and ^(Z)you shall be defeated by your enemies.

^(AA)Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall ^(AB)flee when no one pursues you.

¹⁸ ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^(AC)seven times more for your sins.

¹⁹ I will ^(AD)break the pride of your power;

I ^(AE)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

²⁰ And your ^(AF)strength shall be spent in vain;

for your ^(AG)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

²¹ ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

^{22 (AH)}I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;

and ^(AI)your highways shall be desolate.

²³ ‘And if ^(AJ)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

^{24 (AK)}then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

²⁵ And ^(AL)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities ^(AM)I will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

^{26 (AN)}When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, ^(AO)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷ ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁸ then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

^{29 (AP)}You^[g] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

^{30 (AQ)}I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

³¹ I will lay your ^(AR)cities waste and ^(AS)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ^(AT)smell the fragrance of your ^[h]sweet aromas.

^{32 (AU)}I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

^{33 (AV)}I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

^{34 (AW)}Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

³⁵ As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your ^(AX)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶ ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send ^(AY)faintness^[i] into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;

the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;

they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

^{37 (AZ)}They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and ^(BA)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸ You shall ^(BB)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹ And those of you who are left ^(BC)shall ^[j]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their ^(BD)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

⁴⁰ ‘But ^(BE)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

⁴¹ and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their ^(BF)uncircumcised hearts are ^(BG)humbled, and they ^(BH)accept their guilt—

⁴² then I will ^(BI)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will ^(BJ)remember the land.

^{43 (BK)}The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;

they will accept their guilt, because they ^(BL)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

⁴⁴ Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^(BM)I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;

for I am the Lord their God.

⁴⁵ But ^(BN)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, ^(BO)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^(BP)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”

^{46 (BQ)}These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel ^(BR)on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Footnotes

1. Leviticus 26:2 observe
2. Leviticus 26:6 wild beasts
3. Leviticus 26:11 dwelling place
4. Leviticus 26:13 erect
5. Leviticus 26:16 without profit
6. Leviticus 26:17 oppose you
7. Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
8. Leviticus 26:31 pleasing
9. Leviticus 26:36 fear
10. Leviticus 26:39 rot away

Cross references

1. Leviticus 26:1 : Deut. 7:12–24; 28:1–68
2. Leviticus 26:1 : Ex. 20:4, 5; Deut. 4:15–18; 5:8
3. Leviticus 26:2 : Lev. 19:30
4. Leviticus 26:3 : Deut. 28:1–14
5. Leviticus 26:4 : Is. 30:23
6. Leviticus 26:4 : Ps. 67:6
7. Leviticus 26:5 : Deut. 11:15; Joel 2:19, 26; Amos 9:13
8. Leviticus 26:5 : Lev. 25:18, 19; Ezek. 34:25
9. Leviticus 26:6 : Is. 45:7
10. Leviticus 26:6 : Job 11:19; Ps. 4:8; Zeph. 3:13
11. Leviticus 26:6 : 2 Kin. 17:25; Hos. 2:18
12. Leviticus 26:6 : Ezek. 14:17
13. Leviticus 26:8 : Deut. 32:30; Judg. 7:7–12
14. Leviticus 26:9 : Ex. 2:25; 2 Kin. 13:23
15. Leviticus 26:9 : Gen. 17:6, 7; Ps. 107:38
16. Leviticus 26:9 : Gen. 17:1–7
17. Leviticus 26:10 : Lev. 25:22
18. Leviticus 26:11 : Ex. 25:8; 29:45, 46; Josh. 22:19; Ps. 76:2; Ezek. 37:26; Rev. 21:3
19. Leviticus 26:12 : Deut. 23:14; [2 Cor. 6:16]
20. Leviticus 26:13 : Gen. 27:40
21. Leviticus 26:16 : Deut. 28:22
22. Leviticus 26:16 : 1 Sam. 2:33
23. Leviticus 26:16 : Ezek. 24:23; 33:10
24. Leviticus 26:16 : Judg. 6:3–6; Job 31:8; Mic. 6:15
25. Leviticus 26:17 : Ps. 34:16
26. Leviticus 26:17 : Deut. 28:25; 1 Sam. 4:10; 31:1
27. Leviticus 26:17 : Ps. 106:41
28. Leviticus 26:17 : Prov. 28:1
29. Leviticus 26:18 : 1 Sam. 2:5
30. Leviticus 26:19 : Is. 25:11
31. Leviticus 26:19 : Deut. 28:23
32. Leviticus 26:20 : Ps. 127:1; Is. 17:10, 11; 49:4; Jer. 12:13
33. Leviticus 26:20 : Gen. 4:12; Deut. 11:17
34. Leviticus 26:22 : Deut. 32:24; Ezek. 14:21
35. Leviticus 26:22 : Judg. 5:6; 2 Chr. 15:5; Zech. 7:14
36. Leviticus 26:23 : Jer. 2:30; Amos 4:6–12
37. Leviticus 26:24 : Lev. 26:28, 41; Ps. 18:26
38. Leviticus 26:25 : Ezek. 5:17
39. Leviticus 26:25 : Num. 16:49; Deut. 28:21; 2 Sam. 24:15
40. Leviticus 26:26 : Ps. 105:16; Is. 3:1; Ezek. 4:16, 17; 5:16
41. Leviticus 26:26 : Mic. 6:14; Hag. 1:6
42. Leviticus 26:29 : Deut. 28:53; 2 Kin. 6:28, 29
43. Leviticus 26:30 : 1 Kin. 13:2; 2 Chr. 34:3; Is. 27:9; Ezek. 6:3–6, 13
44. Leviticus 26:31 : 2 Kin. 25:4, 10
45. Leviticus 26:31 : 2 Chr. 36:19; Ps. 74:7
46. Leviticus 26:31 : Is. 1:11–15
47. Leviticus 26:32 : Jer. 9:11; 18:16
48. Leviticus 26:33 : Deut. 4:27; Ps. 44:11; Ezek. 12:15; 20:23; 22:15; Zech. 7:14
49. Leviticus 26:34 : Lev. 26:43; 2 Chr. 36:21
50. Leviticus 26:35 : Lev. 25:2
51. Leviticus 26:36 : Is. 30:17; Lam. 1:3, 6; 4:19; Ezek. 21:7, 12, 15
52. Leviticus 26:37 : Judg. 7:22; 1 Sam. 14:15, 16; Is. 10:4
53. Leviticus 26:37 : Josh. 7:12, 13; Judg. 2:14
54. Leviticus 26:38 : Deut. 4:26
55. Leviticus 26:39 : Deut. 28:65; Ezek. 4:17; 33:10; Zech. 10:9
56. Leviticus 26:39 : Ex. 34:7
57. Leviticus 26:40 : Num. 5:7; 1 Kin. 8:33, 34; Neh. 9:2; Luke 15:18; [1 John 1:9]
58. Leviticus 26:41 : Acts 7:51; Rom. 2:29
59. Leviticus 26:41 : 2 Chr. 12:6, 7, 12; 1 Pet. 5:5, 6
60. Leviticus 26:41 : Ps. 39:9; 51:3, 4; Dan. 9:7
61. Leviticus 26:42 : Ex. 2:24; 6:5; Ps. 106:45; Ezek. 16:60
62. Leviticus 26:42 : Ps. 136:23
63. Leviticus 26:43 : Lev. 26:34, 35
64. Leviticus 26:43 : Lev. 26:15
65. Leviticus 26:44 : Deut. 4:31; 2 Kin. 13:23; Jer. 30:11; [Rom. 11:1–36]
66. Leviticus 26:45 : [Rom. 11:28]
67. Leviticus 26:45 : Lev. 22:33; 25:38
68. Leviticus 26:45 : Ps. 98:2; Ezek. 20:9, 14, 22
69. Leviticus 26:46 : Lev. 27:34; Deut. 6:1; 12:1; [John 1:17]
70. Leviticus 26:46 : Lev. 25:1