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‘If then, you ^[f](ag)act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you ^(ah)seven times according to your sins.

^(ai)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 ^(aj)your roads lie deserted.

‘^(ak)And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me,

then I will ^(al)act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you ^(am)seven times for your sins.

I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute ^(an)vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send ^(ao)pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

^(ap)When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread ^[g]in rationed amounts, so that you will ^(aq)eat and not be satisfied.

‘Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me,

then ^(ar)I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins.