GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
28 I will fiercely resist you. I will discipline you seven times for your sins.
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then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.
29 You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.
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You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
30 I will destroy your worship sites, cut down your incense altars, and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will look at you with disgust.
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I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
31 I will make your cities deserted and ruin your sacred places. I will no longer accept the soothing aroma from your sacrifices.
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I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.
32 I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.
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I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.
33 I will scatter you among the nations. War will follow you. Your country will be in ruins. Your cities will be deserted.
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I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
34 "Then the land will enjoy its time [to honor the LORD] while it lies deserted and you are in your enemies' land. Then the land will joyfully celebrate its time [to honor the LORD].
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Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 All the days it lies deserted, it will celebrate the time [to honor the LORD] it never celebrated while you lived there.
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All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.
36 I will fill with despair those who are left in the land of their enemies. The sound of a windblown leaf will make them run. They will run away and fall, but no one will be chasing them.
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“ ‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.
37 They will stumble over each other, but no one will be after them. They will not be able to stand up to their enemies.
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They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.
38 They will be destroyed among the nations. The land of their enemies will devour them.
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You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.
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