When God Says I Too Will Do This to You in Leviticus 26

"I too will do this to you" (Leviticus 26:16). With anger I come upon you. What I built, I will tear down. From your own hand this came to you, for evil never goes forth from before Me, as it is said, "Out of the mouth of the Most High does not come evil and good?" (Lamentations 3:38). "And I will appoint over you terror" — a plague that terrifies people. And which is this? Pestilence. "Consumption" — that his flesh wastes away from heat. "And fever" — this is chills, so that he has no rest upon his flesh. "That consume the eyes" — so that he himself should not expect that he will live. "And cause the soul to languish" — so that even others will not expect concerning him that he will live, and they grieve over him. "And you shall sow your seed in vain" — concerning the sons and the daughters Scripture speaks: that one toils over them and raises them, and the pestilence comes and consumes them. And so it says, "Those whom I have dandled and reared my enemy has consumed" (Lamentations 2:22).