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Leviticus 26:29-45 Modern English Version (MEV)

29. You shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

30. I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your funeral offerings on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I shall abhor you.

31. I will make your cities a waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your fragrant offerings.

32. I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.

33. I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desolate and your cities a waste.

34. Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

35. As long as it lies desolate it shall rest because it did not rest during your sabbaths when you lived upon it.

36. And on those who are left alive of you I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall make them flee, and they shall flee as from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

37. They shall fall one upon one another, as to escape before the sword, though no one pursues, and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

38. You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall consume you.

39. And those who are left of you shall rot away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers, they shall rot away with them.

40. But if they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their treachery that they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary to Me,

41. and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

42. then will I remember My ­covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

43. But the land shall be abandoned by them, and enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They shall make amends for their iniquity, because they despised My judgments and because they abhorred My statutes.

44. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor will I abhor them to destroy them utterly and to break My covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God.

45. But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

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