GOD'S WORD Translation GW
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15 if you reject my laws and look at my rules with disgust, if you reject my promise by disobeying my commands,
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and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,
16 then this is what I will do to you: I will terrorize you with disease and fever. You will suffer from eye problems and depression. You will plant your crops and get nothing because your enemies will eat them.
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then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
17 I will condemn you so that you will go down in defeat in front of your enemies. Those who hate you will be your rulers. You will run away even when no one is chasing you.
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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 even when no one is pursuing you.
18 "If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins.
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“ ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
19 I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.
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I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.
20 You will work hard for nothing because your land will produce no crops and the trees will produce no fruit.
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Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.
21 "If you resist and don't listen to me, I will increase the punishment for your sins seven times.
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“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.
22 I will send wild animals among you. They will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle, and make you so few that your roads will be deserted.
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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 this discipline does not help and you still resist,
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“ ‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,
24 then I, too, will resist you. I will punish you seven times for your sins.
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I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
25 I will bring war on you to get revenge for my promise [that you rejected]. When you gather in your cities, I will send plagues on you and you will fall under the control of your enemy.
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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.
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