20. Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
21. 'If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.
22. I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.
23. 'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,
24. then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.
25. I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.
26. When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.
27. 'Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,
28. then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.