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Leviticus 26:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you. "

Leviticus 26:17

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15 and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

16 I 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.

17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

18 “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.

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Related Verses

Exodus 23:27

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"I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you."

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Deuteronomy 28:7

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"The LORD will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways."

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Isaiah 41:11

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"Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish."

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Deuteronomy 28:25

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"The LORD will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth."

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1 Peter 3:12

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"For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”"

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Leviticus 17:10

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"“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people."

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From This Chapter

Leviticus 26:1

"“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God."

Leviticus 26:2

"“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD."

Leviticus 26:3

"“‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,"

Leviticus 26:4

"then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit."

Leviticus 26:5

"Your threshing shall continue until the vintage, and the vintage shall continue until the sowing time. You shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely."

Leviticus 26:6

"“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land."

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