"Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me!
But you ask, 'What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?'
You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me. You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me."
"You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me."
Leviticus 26:14-17 "However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands, and if you break my covenant by rejecting my decrees, treating my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my commands, I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you--wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your enemies will eat them. I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you!" (see all chapter 26)
Deuteronomy 20:19 "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!" (see all chapter 30, also chapters 27, 28)
Isaiah 24:6 Therefore, a curse consumes the earth. Its people must pay the price for their sin. They are destroyed by fire, and only a few are left alive. (see all chapter 24)
Lamentations 2:17
"But it is the LORD who did just as he planned.
He has fulfilled the promises of disaster he made long ago.
He has destroyed Jerusalem without mercy.
He has caused her enemies to gloat over her
and has given them power over her." (see verses 13-17)
Daniel 9:11 "All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice. So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin." (see verses 1-19)
Haggai 1:11 "I have called for a drought on your fields and hills--a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get." (see verses 1-11)
Malachi 2:1-2 "Listen, you priests--this command is for you! Listen to me and make up your minds to honor my name," says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, "or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning to heart." (see verses 1-9)
(parentheses are mine)
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