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Leviticus 26:24

24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.

Leviticus 26:24 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
English Standard Version (ESV)
24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
New Living Translation (NLT)
24 then I myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins.
The Message Bible (MSG)
24 then it will be my turn to defy you. I, yes I, will punish you for your sins seven times over:
American Standard Version (ASV)
24 then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
24 then I, too, will resist you. I will punish you seven times for your sins.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
24 then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
24 Then I myself will be your enemy. I will make you suffer for your sins again and again.

Leviticus 26:24 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 26:24

Then I will also walk contrary unto you
Opposing himself unto them as their enemy, fighting against them in his providence, whetting his sword, bending his bow, and causing the arrows of his wrath and vengeance to fall upon them; or behaving towards them in a careless and indifferent manner, not regarding what befell them, showing no peculiar concern for them, or as exercising any particular providence over them; but as if everything came by chance to them, which was the language of their actions, if not of their lips: and will punish you yet seven times for your sins;
add fresh corrections, and these greater than before, and more numerous in proportion to their aggravated transgressions.

Leviticus 26:24 In-Context

22 I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.
23 “ ‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
25 And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.
26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

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