Leviticus 26:18

26:18 “‘If, in spite of all these things, ¹  you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins. ² 

Leviticus 26:21

26:21 “‘If you walk in hostility against me ³  and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction ⁴  seven times according to your sins.

Leviticus 26:28

26:28 I will walk in hostile rage against you ⁵  and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

Deuteronomy 28:15-17

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

28:15 “But if you ignore ⁶  the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force: ⁷  28:16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field. 28:17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28:59-61

28:59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 28:60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt ⁸  that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you. ⁹  28:61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments, ¹⁰  until you have perished.

Deuteronomy 29:20-22

29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger ¹¹  will rage ¹²  against that man; all the curses ¹³  written in this scroll will fall upon him ¹⁴  and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. ¹⁵  29:21 The Lord will single him out ¹⁶  for judgment ¹⁷  from all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant written in this scroll of the law. 29:22 The generation to come – your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places – will see ¹⁸  the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the Lord has brought on it.

Deuteronomy 32:39-42

The Vindication of the Lord

32:39 “See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, ¹⁹ 

“and there is no other god besides me.

I kill and give life,

I smash and I heal,

and none can resist ²⁰  my power.

32:40 For I raise up my hand to heaven,

and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

32:41 I will sharpen my lightning-like sword,

and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; ²¹ 

I will execute vengeance on my foes,

and repay those who hate me! ²² 

32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword will devour flesh –

the blood of the slaughtered and captured,

the chief ²³  of the enemy’s leaders!’”

Deuteronomy 32:1

Invocation of Witnesses

32:1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;

hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 4:8

4:8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just ²⁴  as this whole law ²⁵  that I am about to share with ²⁶  you today?

Deuteronomy 4:1

The Privileges of the Covenant

4:1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances ²⁷  I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, ²⁸  is giving you.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ²⁹  I am giving ³⁰  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ³¹  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ³² 

Jeremiah 19:8

19:8 I will make this city an object of horror, a thing to be hissed at. All who pass by it will be filled with horror and will hiss out their scorn ³³  because of all the disasters that have happened to it. ³⁴ 

Micah 6:13

6:13 I will strike you brutally ³⁵ 

and destroy you because of your sin.

Revelation 18:8

18:8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues ³⁶  in a single day: disease, ³⁷  mourning, ³⁸  and famine, and she will be burned down ³⁹  with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”

Revelation 22:18

22:18 I testify to the one who hears the words of the prophecy contained in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described ⁴⁰  in this book.

[26:18]  ¹ tn Heb “And if until these.”

[26:18]  ² tn Heb “I will add to discipline you seven [times] on your sins.”

[26:21]  ³ tn Heb “hostile with me,” but see the added preposition בְּ (bet) on the phrase “in hostility” in v. 24 and 27.

[26:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “your blow, stroke”; cf. TEV “punishment”; NLT “I will inflict you with seven more disasters.”

[26:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “in rage of hostility with you”; NASB “with wrathful hostility”; NRSV “I will continue hostile to you in fury”; CEV “I’ll get really furious.”

[28:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”

[28:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”

[28:60]  ⁸ sn These are the plagues the Lord inflicted on the Egyptians prior to the exodus which, though they did not fall upon the Israelites, must have caused great terror (cf. Exod 15:26).

[28:60]  ⁹ tn Heb “will cling to you” (so NIV); NLT “will claim you.”

[28:61]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”

[29:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.

[29:20]  ¹² tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”

[29:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “the entire oath.”

[29:20]  ¹⁴ tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”

[29:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”

[29:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “set him apart.”

[29:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for evil”; NAB “for doom”; NASB “for adversity”; NIV “for disaster”; NRSV “for calamity.”

[29:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “will say and see.” One expects a quotation to appear, but it seems to be omitted. To avoid confusion in the translation, the verb “will say” is omitted.

[32:39]  ¹⁹ tn Verses 39-42 appear to be a quotation of the Lord and so the introductory phrase “says the Lord” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[32:39]  ²⁰ tn Heb “deliver from” (so NRSV, NLT).

[32:41]  ²¹ tn Heb “judgment.” This is a metonymy, a figure of speech in which the effect (judgment) is employed as an instrument (sword, spear, or the like), the means, by which it is brought about.

[32:41]  ²² tn The Hebrew term שָׂנֵא (sane’, “hate”) in this covenant context speaks of those who reject Yahweh’s covenant overtures, that is, who disobey its stipulations (see note on the word “rejecting” in Deut 5:9; also see Deut 7:10; 2 Chr 19:2; Ps 81:15; 139:20-21).

[32:42]  ²³ tn Or “head” (the same Hebrew word can mean “head” in the sense of “leader, chieftain” or “head” in the sense of body part).

[4:8]  ²⁴ tn Or “pure”; or “fair”; Heb “righteous.”

[4:8]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew phrase הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת (hattorah hazzo’t), in this context, refers specifically to the Book of Deuteronomy. That is, it is the collection of all the חֻקִּים (khuqqim, “statutes,” 4:1) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim, “ordinances,” 4:1) to be included in the covenant text. In a full canonical sense, of course, it pertains to the entire Pentateuch or Torah.

[4:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “place before.”

[4:1]  ²⁷ tn These technical Hebrew terms (חֻקִּים [khuqqim] and מִשְׁפָּטִים [mishpatim]) occur repeatedly throughout the Book of Deuteronomy to describe the covenant stipulations to which Israel had been called to subscribe (see, in this chapter alone, vv. 1, 5, 6, 8). The word חֻקִּים derives from the verb חֹק (khoq, “to inscribe; to carve”) and מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim) from שָׁפַט (shafat, “to judge”). They are virtually synonymous and are used interchangeably in Deuteronomy.

[4:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 31, 37).

[8:1]  ²⁹ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ³⁰ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ³¹ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ³² tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[19:8]  ³³ sn See 18:16 and the study note there.

[19:8]  ³⁴ tn Heb “all its smitings.” This word has been used several times for the metaphorical “wounds” that Israel has suffered as a result of the blows from its enemies. See, e.g., 14:17. It is used in the Hebrew Bible of scourging, both literally and metaphorically (cf. Deut 25:3; Isa 10:26), and of slaughter and defeat (1 Sam 4:10; Josh 10:20). Here it refers to the results of the crushing blows at the hands of her enemies which has made her the object of scorn.

[6:13]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and also I, I will make you sick, striking you.”

[18:8]  ³⁶ tn Grk “For this reason, her plagues will come.”

[18:8]  ³⁷ tn Grk “death.” θάνατος (qanatos) can in particular contexts refer to a manner of death, specifically a contagious disease (see BDAG 443 s.v. 3; L&N 23.158).

[18:8]  ³⁸ tn This is the same Greek word (πένθος, penqo") translated “grief” in vv. 7-8.

[18:8]  ³⁹ tn Here “burned down” was used to translate κατακαυθήσεται (katakauqhsetai) because a city is in view.

[22:18]  ⁴⁰ tn Grk “written.”