24. then I also shall walk contrary to you, and I Myself shall smite you seven times for your sins.
25. ‘And I shall bring against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall gather together in your cities, and I shall send pestilence among you, and you shall be given into the hand of the enemy.
26. ‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27. ‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28. then I shall walk contrary to you in wrath. And I Myself shall punish you seven times for your sins.
29. ‘And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
30. ‘And I shall destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.
31. ‘And I shall turn your cities into ruins and lay your set-apart places waste, and not smell your sweet fragrances.
32. ‘And I shall lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33. ‘And I shall scatter you among the gentiles and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins,
34. and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies’ land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
35. ‘As long as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36. ‘And as for those of you who are left, I shall send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37. ‘And they shall stumble over one another, as from before a sword, when no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies.
38. ‘And you shall perish among the gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up,
39. and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies’ lands, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with them.
40. ‘But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they also 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 their uncircumcised heart is then humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness,