20. And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
21. If you walk contrary to Me and will not heed Me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you, according to your sins.
22. I will loose the wild beasts of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few so that your roads shall be deserted and desolate. [II Kings 17:25, 26.]
23. If by these means you are not turned to Me but determine to walk contrary to Me,
24. I also will walk contrary to you, and I will smite you seven times for your sins.
25. And I will bring a sword upon you that shall execute the vengeance [for the breaking] of My covenant; and you shall be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hands of the enemy. [Num. 16:49; II Sam. 24:15.]
26. When I break your staff of bread and cut off your supply of food, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread and deliver it again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. [Hag. 1:6.]