5. The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart was continually only evil.

6. The LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7. The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground-man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky-for I am sorry that I have made them."

21. All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

22. All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

14. "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

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 brass.

20. Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

21. "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your SINs.

22. I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.

23. "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

24. then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your SINs.

25. I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

26. When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

27. "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

28. then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your SINs.

29. You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

30. I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

31. I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

32. I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

33. I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

35. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

36. "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

37. They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

38. You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

29. When he gives quietness, who then can condemn?When he hides his face, who then can see him?Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

30. that the godless man may not reign,that there be no one to ensnare the people.