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Leviticus 26:17

World English Bible

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.

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Leviticus 26:17 in other translations

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

Leviticus 26:17 · American Standard Version

Leviticus 26:17 in context

  1. 15and 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,
  2. 16I 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.
  3. 17I 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.
  4. 18“ ‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
  5. 19I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.