12. Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people;
13. I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be their slaves no more, breaking the bars of your yoke and making you walk erect.
14. But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments,
15. if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,
16. then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you—with consumption and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.
17. I will turn against you, and you will be beaten down before your enemies and your foes will lord it over you. You will flee though no one pursues you.
18. If even after this you do not obey me, I will increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold,
19. to break your proud strength. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze,