Leviticus 26:25 “And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the c…”

Leviticus 26:25

And I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

World English Bible

I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

American Standard Version

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Geneva Bible 1599

And I wil send a sword vpon you, that shall auenge the quarel of my couenant: and when ye are gathered in your cities, I wil send the pestilence among you, and ye shall be deliuered into the hand of the enemie.

Darby Translation

And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Young's Literal Translation

and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy.

Bible in Basic English

And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.

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Cross references

“will bring”

Ezekiel 5:17 Deuteronomy 32:25 Ezekiel 6:3 Ezekiel 14:17 Ezekiel 29:8 Ezekiel 33:2

Ezekiel 5:17 · BSB

I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”

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.

Ezekiel 6:3 · BSB

You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy yo…

Ezekiel 14:17 · BSB

Or if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,

Ezekiel 29:8 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast.

Ezekiel 33:2 · BSB

“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: ‘Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land choose a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,

“avenge”

Ezekiel 20:37 Deuteronomy 32:35 Psalm 94:1 Hebrews 10:28–30

Ezekiel 20:37 · BSB

I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 32:35 · BSB

Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”

Psalm 94:1 · BSB

O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.

Hebrews 10:28–30 · BSB

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

“I will send”

Numbers 14:12 Deuteronomy 28:21 Jeremiah 24:10 Numbers 16:49 2 Samuel 24:15 Amos 4:10

Numbers 14:12 · BSB

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

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.

Jeremiah 24:10 · BSB

And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”

Numbers 16:49 · BSB

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

2 Samuel 24:15 · BSB

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

Amos 4:10 · BSB

“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LOR…

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

In context

24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Read Leviticus 26