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,
28. then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. So I will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29. You will eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
30. I will destroy your high places and cut down your altars of incense, cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and My soul will abhor you.
31. I will lay waste your cities and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell your soothing aromas.
32. I will make the land desolate and your enemies settling there will be astonished at it.
33. I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you. So your land will become a desolation and your cities will become a waste.
34. Then the land will enjoy its Shabbatot all the days of its desolation, while you are in the land of your enemies. Then the land will rest and enjoy its Shabbatot.
35. As long as it lies desolate it will have rest, that rest which it did not have from your Shabbatot, when you lived on it.
36. “As for those who remain, I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from the sword and fall, even when no one is pursuing.
37. They will stumble over one another, as if before the sword, when no one pursues, and you will have no strength to stand before your enemies.
38. You will perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will devour you.
39. Those of you who are left in the land of your enemies will rot away because of their iniquity, and because of the iniquities of their fathers they will rot away with them.