Leviticus 26:23 "'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,

◄ Leviticus 26:23 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"'If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me,

English Standard Version
“And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,

New American Standard Bible
'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,

King James Bible
And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but act with hostility toward Me,

International Standard Version
"If, despite these things, you still won't return to me, but live life contrary to me,

American Standard Version
And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if even so you will not amend, but will walk contrary to me:

Darby Bible Translation
And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me,

Young's Literal Translation
And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

Cross References

Leviticus 26:21
And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself unsavory.

Psalm 18:26
With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the fraudulent you will show yourself devious.

Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not your eyes on the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

22. I will also send wild beasts among you—This was one of the four judgments threatened (Eze 14:21; see also 2Ki 2:4).

your highways shall be desolate—Trade and commerce will be destroyed—freedom and safety will be gone—neither stranger nor native will be found on the roads (Isa 33:8). This is an exact picture of the present state of the Holy Land, which has long lain in a state of desolation, brought on by the sins of the ancient Jews.