“Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.”
I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. The divine personal hostility — I myself will be hostile toward you — communicates the intensification of the covenant curses at the fourth level. The previously-announced divine face set against (verse 17) becomes the explicit divine hostility: God as active opponent rather than merely withdrawn protector. The seven-times-over intensification is the third iteration of the sevenfold escalation in the chapter.
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