Leviticus 26:16

I for my part ¹  will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. ²  You will sow your seed in vain because ³  your enemies will eat it. ⁴ 

Ex 15:26; De 28:21,22,35; De 28:32,34,67; De 28:33,51; De 28:65-67; De 32:25; Jud 6:3-6,11; 1Sa 2:33; Job 15:20,21; Job 18:11; Job 20:25; Job 31:8; Ps 73:19; Ps 78:33; Ps 109:6; Isa 7:2; Isa 10:4; Isa 65:22-24; Jer 5:17; Jer 12:13; Jer 15:8; Jer 20:4; Eze 33:10; Mic 6:15; Hag 1:6; Zec 14:12; Heb 10:31

¹ tn Or “I also” (see HALOT 76 s.v. אַף 6.b).

² tn Heb “soul.” These expressions may refer either to the physical effects of consumption and fever as the rendering in the text suggests (e.g., J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 452, 454, “diminishing eyesight and loss of appetite”), or perhaps the more psychological effects, “which exhausts the eyes” because of anxious hope “and causes depression” (Heb “causes soul [נֶפֶשׁ, nefesh] to pine away”), e.g., B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 185.

³ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have causal force here.

⁴ tn That is, “your enemies will eat” the produce that grows from the sown seed.