Leviticus 26:16 “then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terro…”

Leviticus 26:16

then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

World English Bible

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

American Standard Version

I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then wil I also do this vnto you, I wil appoint ouer you fearefulnes, a consumption, and the burning ague to consume the eyes, and make the heart heauie, and you shall sowe your seede in vaine: for your enemies shall eate it:

Darby Translation

I also will do this unto you — I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Young's Literal Translation

I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;

Bible in Basic English

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

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Cross references

“appoint”

Psalm 109:6

Psalm 109:6 · BSB

Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.

“terror”

Deuteronomy 28:65–67 Deuteronomy 32:25 Job 18:11 Job 20:25 Psalm 73:19 Isaiah 7:2

Deuteronomy 28:65–67 · BSB

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Deuteronomy 32:25 · BSB

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Job 18:11 · BSB

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

Job 20:25 · BSB

It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.

Psalm 73:19 · BSB

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Isaiah 7:2 · BSB

When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.

“consumption”

Exodus 15:26 Deuteronomy 28:21 Deuteronomy 28:22 Deuteronomy 28:35

Exodus 15:26 · BSB

saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I…

Deuteronomy 28:21 · BSB

The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:22 · BSB

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 28:35 · BSB

The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

“consume”

1 Samuel 2:33 Psalm 78:33 Ezekiel 33:10 Zechariah 14:12 Deuteronomy 28:32 Deuteronomy 28:34

1 Samuel 2:33 · BSB

And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, I will cause your eyes to fail and your heart to grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.

Psalm 78:33 · BSB

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Ezekiel 33:10 · BSB

Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

Zechariah 14:12 · BSB

And this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will…

Deuteronomy 28:32 · BSB

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Deuteronomy 28:34 · BSB

You will be driven mad by the sights you see.

“and ye shall”

Job 31:8 Jeremiah 5:17 Micah 6:15 Deuteronomy 28:51 Haggai 1:6 Judges 6:3–6

Job 31:8 · BSB

then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Jeremiah 5:17 · BSB

They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities…

Micah 6:15 · BSB

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

Deuteronomy 28:51 · BSB

They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused…

Haggai 1:6 · BSB

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

Judges 6:3–6 · BSB

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

“for your”

Isaiah 10:4

Isaiah 10:4 · BSB

Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

17And 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 when no one pursues you.

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