Leviticus 26 · Verse 16

Leviticus 26:16

I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Leviticus 26:16, King James Version

Leviticus 26:16 in other translations

BSBthen this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
WEBI also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
ASVI also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
YLTI also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;
DARBYI also will do this unto you — I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
BBEThis will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
WebsterI also will do this to you, I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

What does Leviticus 26:16 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
16. I will even appoint over you terror--the falling sickness [Patrick]. consumption, and the burning ague--Some consider these as symptoms of the same disease--consumption followed by the shivering, burning, and sweating fits that are the usual concomitants of that malady. According to the Septuagint, "ague" is "the jaundice," which disorders the eyes and produces great depression of spirits. Others, however, consider the word as referring to a scorching wind; no certain explanation can be given.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 I will even appoint over you terror, etc. - How dreadful is this curse! A whole train of evils are here personified and appointed to be the governors of a disobedient people. Terror is to be one of their keepers. How awful a state! to be continually under the influence of dismay, feeling indescribable evils, and fearing worse! Consumption, שחפת shachepheth, generally allowed to be some kind of atrophy or marasmus, by which the flesh was consumed, and the whole body dried up by raging fever through lack of sustenance. See the note on Lev 11:16. How circumstantially were all these threatenings fulfilled in this disobedient and rebellious people! Let a deist read over this chapter and compare it with the state of the Jews since the days of Vespasian, and then let him doubt the authenticity of this word if he can.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 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…

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Leviticus 26:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַף\־'af-alsoH637
אֲנִ֞י'a.NiIH589
אֶֽעֱשֶׂה\־'e.'e.seh-I will doH6213
זֹּ֣אתzotthisH2063
לָכֶ֗םla.Khemto <the> you
וְהִפְקַדְתִּ֨יve.hif.kad.Tiand I will appointH6485
עֲלֵיכֶ֤ם'a.lei.Khemon youH5921
בֶּֽהָלָה֙be.ha.Lahsudden terrorH928
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַשַּׁחֶ֣פֶתha.sha.Che.fet<the> consumptionH7829
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַקַּדַּ֔חַתha.ka.Da.chat<the> feverH6920
מְכַלּ֥וֹתme.kha.Lot[which] cause to failH3615
עֵינַ֖יִם'ei.Na.yim[the] eyesH5869
וּמְדִיבֹ֣תu.me.di.Votand [which] make pine awayH1727
נָ֑פֶשׁNa.fesh[the] lifeH5315
וּזְרַעְתֶּ֤םu.ze.ra'.Temand you will sowH2232
לָרִיק֙la.Rikto <the> emptinessH7385
זַרְעֲכֶ֔םzar.'a.Khemseed yourH2233
וַאֲכָלֻ֖הוּva.'a.kha.Lu.huand they will eat itH398
אֹיְבֵיכֶֽם\׃'o.ye.vei.Khemenemies yourH341

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Cross references for Leviticus 26:16

  • Job 31:8

    Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • Micah 6:15

    Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

  • Jeremiah 5:17

    And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.

  • 1 Samuel 2:33

    And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

  • Deuteronomy 28:32-35

    Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

  • Deuteronomy 28:21-22

    The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it. The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

  • Deuteronomy 28:51

    And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

  • Haggai 1:6

    Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

  • Judges 6:3-6

    And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.

  • Psalms 78:33

    Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

  • Isaiah 65:22-24

    They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

  • Isaiah 10:4

    Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
appoint.
Ps 109:6
over you. Heb. upon you. terror.
De 28:65-67; 32:25; Job 15:20,21; 18:11; 20:25; Ps 73:19; Isa 7:2
Jer 15:8; 20:4; Heb 10:31
consumption.
Ex 15:26; De 28:21,22,35
consume.
De 28:32,34,67; 1Sa 2:33; Ps 78:33; Eze 33:10; Zec 14:12
and ye shall.
De 28:33,51; Jud 6:3-6,11; Job 31:8; Isa 65:22-24; Jer 5:17; 12:13
Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6
for your.
Isa 10:4

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Context

  • Leviticus 26:15

    And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

  • Leviticus 26:16

    I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

  • Leviticus 26:17

    And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

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Leviticus 26:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Yo también haré con vosotros esto: enviaré sobre vosotros terror, extenuación y calentura, que consuman los ojos y atormenten el alma: y sembraréis en balde vuestra simiente, porque vuestros enemigos la comerán:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
moi aussi, je vous ferai ceci: J’ordonnerai sur vous la frayeur, la consomption et la fièvre qui consumeront vos yeux et feront défaillir votre âme; et vous sèmerez en vain votre semence, car vos ennemis la mangeront.
German
Elberfelder 1871
so werde auch ich euch dieses tun: Ich werde Schrecken über euch bestellen, Schwindsucht und Fieberglut, welche machen werden, daß die Augen erlöschen und die Seele verschmachtet; und ihr werdet vergeblich euren Samen säen, denn eure Feinde werden ihn verzehren;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
ego quoque hæc faciam vobis: visitabo vos velociter in egestate, et ardore, qui conficiat oculos vestros, et consumat animas vestras. Frustra seretis sementem, quæ ab hostibus devorabitur.