Leviticus 26:28 (LSB)

Passage

then I will walk in wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will discipline you seven times for your sins.

Nearby Context

Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by rationed weight so that you will eat and not become full.

Leviticus 26:27 ‘Yet, if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but walk in hostility against Me,

Leviticus 26:28 then I will walk in wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will discipline you seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26:29 Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

Leviticus 26:30 I then will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and give your corpses to lie on the corpses of your idols, for My soul shall loathe you.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "walk", "wrathful", "hostility", "against", "even", "discipline", "seven", and "times". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "walk" and "wrathful", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 27's "Yet if in spite of this you..." into verse 29's "Further you will eat the flesh of...", so "walk" and "wrathful" belong inside that flow. In Leviticus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "walk" and "wrathful" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.