| New American Standard Bible 1995 | International Standard Version |
| 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. | 1"You are not to make worthless idols, images, or pillars for yourselves, nor set up for yourselves carved images to bow down to them in the land, because I am the LORD your God. |
| 2'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD. | 2"You are to keep my Sabbath and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD. |
| 3'If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, | 3"If you live by my statutes, obey my commands, and observe them, |
| 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. | 4then I'll send your rain in its season so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will yield their fruit. |
| 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. | 5Threshing will extend to the time of vintage and the vintage will extend to the time of sowing, so that you'll eat your bread to your satisfaction and live securely in 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. | 6I'll give peace in the land so that you'll lie down without fear. I'll remove wild beasts from the land, and not even war will come to your land. |
| 7'But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword; | 7Instead, you'll pursue your enemies and they'll die by the sword before you. |
| 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. | 8Five of you will chase a hundred, a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. |
| 9'So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you. | 9"I'll look after you, ensuring that you'll be fruitful. I'll increase your number and keep my covenant with you. |
| 10'You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. | 10When you have consumed what was stored of the old, then you'll take out the old and replace it with what's new. |
| 11'Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you. | 11I'll set up my tent in your midst and I won't loathe you. |
| 12'I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. | 12I'll walk among you. I will be your God, and you'll be my people. |
| 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. | 13I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you will no longer be their slaves, since I've broken their oppressive yoke upon you to make you walk upright." |
| 14'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, | 14"But if you won't listen to me and obey all these commands, |
| 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, | 15and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant, |
| 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. | 16then I will certainly do this to you: I'll appoint sudden terror to infect you like tuberculosis and fever. Your eyes will fail and your life will waste away. You'll plant in vain, because your enemies will consume what you plant. |
| 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. | 17I'll set my face against you so that you'll be defeated before your enemies. Those who hate you will have dominion over you and you'll keep fleeing even when no one is pursuing you. |
| 18'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. | 18"If, despite all of this, you still don't listen to me, then I'll punish you seven times more on account of your sins. |
| 19'I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. | 19I'll break your mighty pride. I'll make the heavens to be like iron and the ground like bronze. |
| 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. | 20Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land won't yield its produce and the trees of the land won't yield their fruit. |
| 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. | 21"If you live life contrary to me and remain unwilling to listen to me, then I'll add to your wounds seven times more on account of your sins. |
| 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. | 22I'll send wild beasts against you from the open country to deprive you of your children, destroy your cattle, and decrease your number so that your roads become desolate. |
| 23'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, | 23"If, despite these things, you still won't return to me, but live life contrary to me, |
| 24then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins. | 24then I'll certainly oppose you. I'll take vengeance against you seven fold on account of your sins. |
| 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. | 25I'll bring the sword against you to execute the vengeance of my covenant. When you gather in your cities, I'll send a pestilence. As a result, you'll be delivered into the control of your enemies. |
| 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. | 26When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they'll return back your bread by weight. You'll eat but won't be satisfied. |
| 27'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, | 27"If, after all of this time, you don't listen to me, but instead live life contrary to me, |
| 28then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. | 28I'll oppose you with vicious rage. Indeed, I myself will punish you seven fold on account of your sins. |
| 29'Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat. | 29At that time, you'll eat the flesh of your sons and you'll eat the flesh of your daughters. |
| 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. | 30I'll destroy your high places and cut down your sun pillars. Then I'll cast your dead bodies on top of the bodies of your idols. I'll loathe you. |
| 31'I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas. | 31I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors. |
| 32'I will make the land desolate so that your enemies who settle in it will be appalled over it. | 32I'll make the land so desolate that your enemies who live in it will be astonished." |
| 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. | 33"I'll scatter you among the nations and draw the sword after you so that your land becomes desolate and your towns become ruins. |
| 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. | 34Then the land will finally be pleased with its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time, the land will rest and take its Sabbaths. |
| 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. | 35As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest that it will not have had during your Sabbaths when you were living in it. |
| 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. | 36"As for the remnants among you, I'll bring despair in their hearts in the land of their enemies so that even the sound of a blown leaf will chase them and they flee as though pursued by the sword and fall when no one is pursuing. |
| 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. | 37They'll stumble over each other as though fleeing before the sword, even though no one is pursuing. "You won't have power to resist your enemies. |
| 38'But you will perish among the nations, and your enemies' land will consume you. | 38You'll perish among the nations and the land of your enemies will consume you. |
| 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. | 39The remnants among you will waste away in the land of your enemies due to their iniquity. Indeed, they'll also waste away on account of the iniquities of their ancestors with them." |
| 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-- | 40"Nevertheless, when they confess their iniquity, the iniquity of their ancestors, and their unfaithfulness by which they acted unfaithfully against me by living life contrary to me— |
| 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, | 41causing me to oppose them and take them to the land of their enemies so that the uncircumcised foreskin of their hearts can be humbled and so that they accept the punishment of their iniquity— |
| 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. | 42then I'll remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham. I'll also remember the land. |
| 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. | 43They will leave the land so it can rest while it lies desolate without them. That's when they'll receive the punishment of their iniquity, because indeed they will have rejected my ordinances and despised my statutes. |
| 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. | 44Yet, despite all of these things, when they're in the land of their enemies, I won't reject or despise them so as to completely destroy them and by doing so violate my covenant with them, because I am the LORD their God. |
| 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.'" | 45Instead, on account of them, I'll remember my covenant with their ancestors when I brought them out of the land of Egypt right before the eyes of the nations, so that I could be their God. I am the LORD." |
| 46These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the LORD established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai. | 46These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws that the LORD made between himself and the Israelis on Mount Sinai, as recorded by the hand of Moses. |
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