Leviticus 26:24
24 I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.
Other Translations of Leviticus 26:24
King James Version
24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
English Standard Version
24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
The Message
24 then it will be my turn to defy you. I, yes I, will punish you for your sins seven times over:
New King James Version
24 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
New Living Translation
24 then I myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Leviticus 26:24
Commentary on Leviticus 26:14-39
(Read Leviticus 26:14-39)
After God has set the blessing before them which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient, he here sets the curse before them, the evils which would make them miserable, if they were disobedient. Two things would bring ruin. 1. A contempt of God's commandments. They that reject the precept, will come at last to renounce the covenant. 2. A contempt of his corrections. If they will not learn obedience by the things they suffer, God himself would be against them; and this is the root and cause of all their misery. And also, The whole creation would be at war with them. All God's sore judgments would be sent against them. The threatenings here are very particular, they were prophecies, and He that foresaw all their rebellions, knew they would prove so. TEMPORAL judgments are threatened. Those who will not be parted from their sins by the commands of God, shall be parted from them by judgments. Those wedded to their lusts, will have enough of them. SPIRITUAL judgments are threatened, which should seize the mind. They should find no acceptance with God. A guilty conscience would be their continual terror. It is righteous with God to leave those to despair of pardon, who presume to sin; and it is owing to free grace, if we are not left to pine away in the iniquity we were born in, and have lived in.