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,
20. so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.
21. If then you continue hostile, unwilling to obey me, I will multiply my blows sevenfold, as your sins deserve.
22. I will unleash wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted.
23. If, with all this, you still do not accept my discipline and continue hostile to me,
24. I, too, will continue to be hostile to you and I, for my part, will smite you for your sins sevenfold.