15 if you reject my rules and despise my regulations, not doing all my commands and breaking my covenant—
16 then I will do the following to you:I will bring horrific things: wasting diseases and fevers that make the eyes fail and drain life away.You will plant seed for no reason because your enemies will eat the food.
17 I will turn my face against you: you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you; and you will run away even when no one is chasing you.
18 If, despite all that, you still do not obey me, I will punish you for your sins seven more times:
19 I will destroy your prideful power. I will turn your sky to iron and your land to bronze
20 so that your strength will be spent for no reason: your land will not produce its yield, and the trees of the land won’t produce their fruit.
21 If you continue to oppose me and are unwilling to obey me, I will strike you for your sins seven more times: