10. You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new.
11. “‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you.
12. I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.
13. I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.
14. “‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments –
15. if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant –
16. I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.
17. I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
18. “‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.
19. I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.
20. Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.
21. “‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.
22. I will send the wild animals against you and they will bereave you of your children, annihilate your cattle, and diminish your population so that your roads will become deserted.
23. “‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,
24. I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.
25. I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.
26. When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
27. “‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,