King James Version, Updated™

KJV:   1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it : for I am the LORD your God.

KJVu: 1 " 'YOU shall not make yourselves any idols nor graven image, neither raise yourselves up a standing image, neither shall YOU set up any image of stone in YOUR land, to bow down to it ; for I am the LORD YOUR God.

KJV:   2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary : I am the LORD.

KJVu: 2 YOU shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary ; I am the LORD.

KJV:   3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ;

KJVu: 3 If YOU walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ,

KJV:   4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

KJVu: 4 then I will give YOU rain in due season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

KJV:   5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time : and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

KJVu: 5 YOUR threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time ; and YOU shall eat YOUR bread to the full, and dwell in YOUR land safely.

KJV:   6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid : and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

KJVu: 6 I will give peace in the land, and YOU shall lie down, and none shall make YOU afraid ; and I will remove evil beasts from out of the land, neither shall the sword go through YOUR land.

Notes: "Rid" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H7673 with a Strong’s definition of "remove ( = מִן הֵסִיר): with מִן Ezekiel 23:27,48; Psalm 89:45 (text dubious: read הִשְׁבַּתּוֺ [."

KJV:   7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

KJVu: 7 YOU shall chase YOUR enemies, and they shall fall before YOU by the sword.

KJV:   8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight : and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

KJVu: 8 Five of YOU shall chase 100, and 100 of YOU shall put 10,000 to flight ; and YOUR enemies shall fall before YOU by the sword.

KJV:   9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

KJVu: 9 For I will have respect for YOU, and make YOU fruitful, and multiply YOU, and establish my covenant with YOU.

KJV:   10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

KJVu: 10 You shall eat the old stored food, and clear out the old because of the new.

KJV:   11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.

KJVu: 11 I will set my tabernacle among YOU, and my soul shall not loathe YOU.

Notes: "Abhor" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H1602 with a Strong’s definition of "to abhor, loathe."

KJV:   12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

KJVu: 12 And I will walk among YOU, and will be YOUR God, and YOU shall be my people.

KJV:   13 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

KJVu: 13 I am the LORD YOUR God, which brought YOU out of the land of Egypt, that YOU should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of YOUR yoke, and made YOU walk upright.

Notes: "Bondmen" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H5650 with a Strong’s definition of "slave, servant."

KJV:   14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments ;

KJVu: 14 But if YOU will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments ,

KJV:   15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant :

KJVu: 15 and if YOU despise my statutes, or if YOUR soul abhor my judgments, so that YOU will not do all my commandments, so that YOU break my covenant ,

KJV:   16 I also will do this unto YOU; I will even appoint over YOU terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart : and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

KJVu: 16 I will also do this to YOU: Over YOU I will appoint terror, wasting disease, and a burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart ; YOU shall sow YOUR seed in vain, for YOUR enemies shall eat it.

Notes:

KJV:   17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies : they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

KJVu: 17 And I will set my face against YOU, and YOU shall be struck before YOUR enemies ; they that hate YOU shall reign over YOU; and YOU shall flee when no one pursues YOU.

KJV:   18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

KJVu: 18 After all this, if YOU still do not listen to me, then I will punish YOU seven times more for YOUR sins.

KJV:   19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass :

KJVu: 19 I will break the pride of YOUR power; and I will make YOUR heaven as iron, and YOUR earth as brass .

KJV:   20 And your strength shall be spent in vain : for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

KJVu: 20 And YOUR strength shall be spent in vain ; for YOUR land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

KJV:   21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me ; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

KJVu: 21 If YOU walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me , I will bring seven times more plagues on YOU according to YOUR sins.

KJV:   22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

KJVu: 22 I will also send wild beasts among YOU, which shall rob YOU of YOUR children, and destroy YOUR cattle, and make YOU few in number; and YOUR highways shall be desolate.

KJV:   23 And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me ;

KJVu: 23 And if by these things YOU will not be reformed by me, but walk contrary to me ,

KJV:   24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

KJVu: 24 then I will also walk contrary to YOU, and will punish YOU seven times for YOUR sins.

KJV:   25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant : and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

KJVu: 25 I will bring a sword upon YOU, that shall take vengeance for my covenant ; and when YOU are gathered together within YOUR cities, I will send the pestilence among YOU; and YOU shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

KJV:   26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight : and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

KJVu: 26 When I have broken the supply of YOUR bread, 10 women shall bake YOUR bread in one oven, and they shall deliver YOUR bread again by weight ; and YOU shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Notes: "Staff" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H4294 with a Strong’s definition of "from staff as support comes figurative מַטֵּהלֶֿחֶם staff of bread (food supply)."

KJV:   27 And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me ;

KJVu: 27 If after all this YOU will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me ,

KJV:   28 Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury ; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

KJVu: 28 then I will walk contrary to YOU in fury , and I, myself, will chastise YOU seven times for YOUR sins.

KJV:   29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

KJVu: 29 YOU shall eat the flesh of YOUR sons, and the flesh of YOUR daughters YOU shall eat.

KJV:   30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

KJVu: 30 I will destroy YOUR high places, and cut down YOUR images, and cast YOUR dead bodies on the dead bodies of YOUR idols, and my soul shall abhor YOU.

Notes: "Carcases" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H9297 with a Strong’s definition of "Corpse, carcass, dead body."

KJV:   31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

KJVu: 31 And I will make YOUR cities waste, and bring YOUR sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the scent of YOUR sweet odors.

KJV:   32 And I will bring the land into desolation : and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

KJVu: 32 I will bring the land to desolation , and YOUR enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

KJV:   33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

KJVu: 33 And I will scatter YOU among the nations, and will draw out a sword after YOU; and YOUR land shall be desolate, and YOUR cities waste.

KJV:   34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.

KJVu: 34 Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and YOU are in YOUR enemies' land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

KJV:   35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest ; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

KJVu: 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest , for it did not rest on YOUR sabbaths, when YOU dwelt on it.

KJV:   36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

KJVu: 36 And for those of YOU that are left I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them away; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when no one pursues.

KJV:   37 And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

KJVu: 37 They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues; and YOU shall have no power to stand before YOUR enemies.

Notes: "Fall" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H3782 with a Strong’s definition of "To stumble, to fall, to stagger, to totter."

KJV:   38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

KJVu: 38 YOU shall perish among the nations, and the land of YOUR enemies shall eat YOU up.

KJV:   39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

KJVu: 39 And they that are left of YOU shall waste away in their iniquity in YOUR enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall waste away with them.

Notes: "Pine" highlighted in the KJV verse is Strong’s H4743 with a Strong’s definition of "To decay, rot, melt away, waste away."

KJV:   40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me ;

KJVu: 40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me ,

KJV:   41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity :

KJVu: 41 and that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they then accept the punishment for their iniquity ,

KJV:   42 Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

KJVu: 42 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham I will remember; and I will remember the land.

KJV:   43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them : and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity : because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

KJVu: 43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies desolate without them , and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity , because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

KJV:   44 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them : for I am the LORD their God.

KJVu: 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them ; for I am the LORD their God.

KJV:   45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God : I am the LORD.

KJVu: 45 But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God ; I am the LORD. ' "

KJV:   46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

KJVu: 46 These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between himself and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.