16. then I will do the following to you in return. I will appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever that will dim the eyes and cause the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
17. I will set My face against you and you will be routed before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.
18. “If you, in spite of these things, will not listen to Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
19. I will break your pride of power. I will make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
20. Also your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its increase, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21. “If you keep walking contrary to Me and will not listen to Me, then I will multiply the plagues on you seven times like your sins.
22. I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you so few in number that your roads will become deserted.
23. “Now if in spite of these things you will not be chastened by Me, but walk contrary to Me instead,
24. then I will also walk contrary to you. Then I will strike you, I Myself, seven times for your sins.
25. I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant, and you will be gathered together inside your cities. I will send the pestilence among you and you will be given into the hand of the enemy.
26. When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
27. “Yet if in spite of this you will not listen to Me but walk contrary to Me,