'And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with hostility against you and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.

'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 your roads lie deserted. 'If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins. 'Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit. 'I will also break down your pride of power I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze. 'If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. 'I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up. 'But if you do not obey Me and do not carry out all these commandments, if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, read more. 'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Pestilence by Edward Jarvis