and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. I will send a sword
upon you, that shall avenge my testament with you. And when ye are fled
unto your cities, I will send the pestilence among you, ye shall be
delivered into the hands of your enemies. And when I have broken the
staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven
and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then shall ye eat
and shall not be satisfied. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken
unto me, but shall walk contrary unto me, then I will walk contrary
unto you also wrathfully, and will also chastise you seven times for
your sins: so that ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of
your daughters. And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills,
and overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of
your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities
desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell
the savours of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land unto a
wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at
it. And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate. Then
the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye
in your enemies' land: even then shall the land keep holy day and
rejoice in her Sabbaths. And as long as it lieth void it shall rest,
for that it could not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein. And
upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into
their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf
that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled
a sword, and shall fall no man following them. And they shall fall one
upon another, as it were before a sword even no man following them, and
ye shall have no power to stond before your enemies: And ye shall
perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you
up. And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their
unrighteousness, even in their enemies' land, and also in the misdeeds
of their fathers shall they consume. And they shall confess their
misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers in their trespasses which
they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have
walked contrary unto me. Therefore I also will walk contrary unto them,
and will bring them into the land of their enemies. And then at the
least way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and then they
shall make an atonement for their misdeeds. And I will remember my bond
with Iacob and my testament with Isaac, and my testament with Abraham,
and will think on the land. For the land shall be left of them and
shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without
them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds, because they
despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances. And yet for
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