Leviticus 26

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 "Do not make false gods for yourselves. You shall not erect an idol or a sacred pillar for yourselves, nor shall you set up a stone figure for worship in your land; for I, the LORD, am your God.	1 I am the Lord your God: you shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing, neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it: for I am the Lord your God.
2 Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD.	2 Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 "If you live in accordance with my precepts and are careful to observe my commandments,	3 If you walk in my precepts, and keep my commandments, and do them, I will give you rein in due seasons.
4 I will give you rain in due season, so that the land will bear its crops, and the trees their fruit;	4 And the ground shall bring forth its increase, and the trees shall be filled with fruit.
5 your threshing will last till vintage time, and your vintage till the time for sowing, and you will have food to eat in abundance, so that you may dwell securely in your land.	5 The threshing of your harvest shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land without fear.
6 I will establish peace in the land, that you may lie down to rest without anxiety. I will rid the country of ravenous beasts, and keep the sword of war from sweeping across your land.	6 I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.
7 You will rout your enemies and lay them low with your sword.	7 You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you.
8 Five of you will put a hundred of your foes to flight, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand of them, till they are cut down by your sword.	8 Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others, and a hundred of you ten thousand: your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
9 I will look with favor upon you, and make you fruitful and numerous, as I carry out my covenant with you.	9 I will look on you, and make you increase: you shell be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.
10 So much of the old crops will you have stored up for food that you will have to discard them to make room for the new.	10 You shall eat the oldest of the old store, and, new coming on, you shall cast away the old.
11 I will set my Dwelling among you, and will not disdain you.	11 I will set my tabernacle in the midst of you, and my soul shall not cast you off.
12 Ever present in your midst, I will be your God, and you will be my people;	12 I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
13 for it is I, the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of the Egyptians and freed you from their slavery, breaking the yoke they had laid upon you and letting you walk erect.	13 I am the Lord your God: who have brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that you should not serve them, and who have broken the chains of your necks, that you might go upright.
14 "But if you do not heed me and do not keep all these commandments,	14 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments,
15 if you reject my precepts and spurn my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,	15 If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant:
16 then I, in turn, will give you your deserts. I will punish you with terrible woes--with wasting and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.	16 I also will do these things to you: I will quickly visit you with poverty, and burning heat, which shall waste your eyes, and consume your lives. You shall sow your seed in vain, which shall be devoured by your enemies.
17 I will turn against you, till you are beaten down before your enemies and lorded over by your foes. You will take to flight though no one pursues you.	17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies, and shall be made subject to them that hate you, you shall flee when no man pursueth you.
18 "If even after this you do not obey me, I will increase the chastisement for your sins sevenfold,	18 But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins,
19 to break your haughty confidence. I will make the sky above you as hard as iron, and your soil as hard as bronze,	19 And I will break the pride of your stubbornness, and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass:
20 so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.	20 Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit.
21 "If then you become defiant in your unwillingness to obey me, I will multiply my blows another sevenfold, as your sins deserve.	21 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins:
22 I will unleash the wild beasts against you, to rob you of your children and wipe out your livestock, till your population dwindles away and your roads become deserted.	22 And I will send in upon you the beasts of the held, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number, and that your highways may be desolate.
23 "If, with all this, you still refuse to be chastened by me and continue to defy me,	23 And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:
24 I, too, will defy you and will smite you for your sins seven times harder than before.	24 I also will walk contrary to you, and will strike you seven times for your sins.
25 I will make the sword, the avenger of my covenant, sweep over you. Though you then huddle together in your walled cities, I will send in pestilence among you, till you are forced to surrender to the enemy.	25 And I will bring in upon you the sword that shall avenge my covenant. And when you shall flee into the cities, I will send the pestilence in the midst of you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,
26 And as I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking all the bread they dole out to you in rations--not enough food to still your hunger.	26 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled.
27 "If, despite all this, you still persist in disobeying and defying me,	27 But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me:
28 I, also, will meet you with fiery defiance and will chastise you with sevenfold fiercer punishment for your sins,	28 I will also go against you with opposite fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues for your sins,
29 till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.	29 So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
30 I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses on those of your idols. In my abhorrence of you,	30 I will destroy your high places, and break your idols. You shall fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
31 I will lay waste your cities and devastate your sanctuaries, refusing to accept your sweet-smelling offerings.	31 Insomuch that I will bring your cities to be a wilderness, and I will make your sanctuaries desolate, and will receive no more your sweet odours.
32 So devastated will I leave the land that your very enemies who come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it.	32 And I will destroy your land, and your enemies shall be astonished at it, when they shall be the inhabitants thereof.
33 You yourselves I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.	33 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed.
34 Then shall the land retrieve its lost sabbaths during all the time it lies waste, while you are in the land of your enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its sabbaths	34 Then shell the land enjoy her sabbaths all the days of her desolation: when you shall be
35 during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the rest that you would not let it have on the sabbaths when you lived there.	35 In the enemy's land, she shall keep a sabbath, and rest in the sabbaths of her desolation, because she did not rest in your sabbaths when you dwelt therein.
36 "Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies I will make so fainthearted that, if leaves rustle behind them, they will flee headlong, as if from the sword, though no one pursues them;	36 And as to them that shall remain of you I will send fear in their hearts in the countries of their enemies, the sound of a flying leaf shall terrify them, and they shall flee as it were from the sword: they shall fall, when no man pursueth them,
37 stumbling over one another as if to escape a weapon, while no one is after them--so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes!	37 And they shall every one fall upon their brethren as fleeing from wars, none of you shall dare to resist your enemies.
38 You will be lost among the Gentiles, swallowed up in your enemies' country.	38 You shall perish among the Gentiles, and an enemy's land shall consume you.
39 Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies will waste away for their own and their fathers' guilt.	39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies, and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own:
40 "Thus they will have to confess that they and their fathers were guilty of having rebelled against me and of having defied me,	40 Until they confess their iniquities and the iniquities of their ancestors, whereby they have transgressed me, and walked contrary unto me.
41 so that I, too, had to defy them and bring them into their enemies' land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their guilt,	41 Therefore I also will walk them, and bring them into their enemies' land until their uncircumcised mind be ashamed: then shall they pray for their sins.
42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham; and of the land, too, I will be mindful.	42 And I will remember my covenant, that I made with Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham. I will remember also the land:
43 But the land must first be rid of them, that in its desolation it may make up its lost sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my precepts and abhorred my statutes.	43 Which when she shall be left by them, shall enjoy her sabbaths, being desolate for them. But they shall pray for their sins, because they rejected my judgments, and despised my laws.
44 Yet even so, even while they are in their enemies' land, I will not reject or spurn them, lest, by wiping them out, I make void my covenant with them; for I, the LORD, am their God.	44 And yet for all that when they were in the land of their enemies, I did not cast them off altogether, neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed, and I should make void my covenant with them. For I am the Lord their God.
45 I will remember them because of the covenant I made with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt under the very eyes of the Gentiles, that I, the LORD, might be their God."	45 And I will remember my former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the Gentiles, to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the judgments, and precepts, and laws, which the Lord gave between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
46 These are the precepts, decrees and laws which the LORD had Moses promulgate on Mount Sinai in the pact between himself and the Israelites.