Christian Standard Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
1"Do not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God. | 1You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God. |
2Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD. | 2'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD. |
3"If you follow my statutes and faithfully observe my commands, | 3'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, |
4I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. | 4then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. |
5Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land. | 5'Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land. |
6I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to frighten you. I will remove dangerous animals from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. | 6I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. |
7You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword. | 7'But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword; |
8Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand; your enemies will fall before you by the sword. | 8five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. |
9"I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm my covenant with you. | 9'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. |
10You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new. | 10'You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. |
11I will place my residence among you, and I will not reject you. | 11'Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you. |
12I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. | 12'I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. |
13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom. | 13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect. |
14"But if you do not obey me and observe all these commands-- | 14'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, |
15if you reject my statutes and despise my ordinances, and do not observe all my commands--and break my covenant, | 15if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, |
16then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you--wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it. | 16I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. |
17I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you. | 17'I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. |
18"But if after these things you will not obey me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins. | 18'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. |
19I will break down your strong pride. I will make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, | 19'I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. |
20and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. | 20'Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. |
21"If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins. | 21'If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. |
22I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted. | 22'I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted. |
23"If in spite of these things you do not accept my discipline, but act with hostility toward me, | 23'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, |
24then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins. | 24then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins. |
25I will bring a sword against you to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands. | 25'I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands. |
26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. | 26'When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied. |
27"And if in spite of this you do not obey me but act with hostility toward me, | 27'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, |
28I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins. | 28then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. |
29You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters. | 29'Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. |
30I will destroy your high places, cut down your shrines, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you. | 30'I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you. |
31I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices. | 31'I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. |
32I also will devastate the land, so that your enemies who come to live there will be appalled by it. | 32'I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it. |
33But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins. | 33'You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste. |
34"Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths. | 34'Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies' land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. |
35As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there. | 35All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. |
36"I will put anxiety in the hearts of those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a wind-driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as one flees from a sword, and fall though no one is pursuing them. | 36'As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall. |
37They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies. | 37They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies. |
38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. | 38'But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will consume you. |
39Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their iniquity; they will also waste away because of their fathers' iniquities along with theirs. | 39'So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their forefathers they will rot away with them. |
40"But when they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers--their unfaithfulness that they practiced against me, and how they acted with hostility toward me, | 40'If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me-- |
41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies--and when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, | 41I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies-- or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity, |
42then I will remember my covenant with Jacob. I will also remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. | 42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. |
43For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected my ordinances and abhorred my statutes. | 43'For the land will be abandoned by them, and will make up for its sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, will be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes. |
44Yet in spite of this, while they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or abhor them so as to destroy them and break my covenant with them, since I am the LORD their God. | 44'Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God. |
45For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am the LORD." | 45'But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.'" |
46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the LORD established between himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai. | 46These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai. |
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