Deuteronomy 28
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Blessings for Obedience
1#Ex 15:26; Lev 26:3–13Now it will be, if you will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I am commanding you today, then the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2#Zec 1:6; Dt 28:15And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
3#Ge 39:5You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.
4#Ge 49:25; Dt 7:13Your offspring will be blessed, and the produce of your ground, and the offspring of your livestock, the increase of your herd and the flocks of your sheep.
5Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.
6#Ps 121:8You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
7#Lev 26:7–8; Dt 28:25The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
8#Lev 25:21; Dt 15:10The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you set your hand to do, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
9#Ex 19:5–6; Dt 7:6; 13:17The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He swore to you, if you will keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 10#2Ch 7:14; Nu 6:27All people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. 11#Dt 28:4; 30:9The Lord will make you overflow in prosperity, in the offspring of your body, in the offspring of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
12#Lev 26:4; Dt 15:6The Lord will open up to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13#Dt 28:1; Isa 9:14–15The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you will only be above and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them. 14#Dt 5:32Also, you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Warnings Against Disobedience
15#Mal 2:2; Dt 28:2But it will happen, if you will not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, by being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.
16You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.
17#Dt 28:5Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.
18#Dt 28:4Your offspring will be cursed along with the fruit of your land, the produce of your herd, and the flocks of your sheep.
19#Dt 28:6You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
20#Isa 51:20; 66:15The Lord will send cursing, vexation, and rebuke on you in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly because of the wickedness of your doings, by which you have forsaken Me. 21#Lev 26:25; Jer 24:10The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until it has consumed you from the land, which you are going to possess. 22#Lev 26:16; Am 4:9The Lord will strike you with a wasting disease, with a fever, with an inflammation, with an extreme heat, with the sword, with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish. 23#Lev 26:19The heavens which are over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron. 24#Dt 28:12The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come from heaven down on you until you are destroyed.
25#Isa 30:17; Eze 23:46The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies, and you will go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them, and will be become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26#Jer 7:33; 16:4Your carcass will be meat for all the fowls of the air and beasts of the earth, and no man will frighten them away. 27#1Sa 5:6; Ex 9:9The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28The Lord will strike you with madness, and blindness, and bewilderment of heart. 29#Job 5:14; Isa 59:10You will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and continually robbed, and no man will save you.
30#Am 5:11; Jer 8:10; Job 31:10You will be engaged to a woman and another man shall rape her. You will build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not gather its grapes. 31Your ox will be killed before your eyes, and you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be violently taken away from before you and will not be returned to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to rescue them. 32#Dt 28:41; 2Ch 29:9Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people. Your eyes will look and fail with longing for them all day long, but there will be nothing you can do. 33#Jer 5:17A nation that you do not know will consume the produce of your land and all your labors, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed all the time. 34You will go insane because of what your eyes will see. 35#Dt 28:27The Lord will strike you in the knees and legs with sore boils that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36#Dt 4:28; 2Ki 25:11The Lord will bring you and your king, which you will set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will serve other gods, wood and stone. 37#Jer 24:9; 1Ki 9:7–8You will become a horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule among all nations where the Lord shall lead you.
38#Joel 1:4; Mic 6:15You will carry a lot of seed out into the field but will gather but little in, for the locust will consume it. 39You will plant vineyards and dress them, but will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for worms will eat them. 40#Mic 6:15You will have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olive will drop off. 41#Dt 28:32; La 1:5You will give birth to sons and daughters, but you will not enjoy them, for they will go into captivity. 42The locust will consume all of your trees and fruit of your land.
43#Dt 28:13The foreigner who resides with you will get up higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower. 44#Dt 28:12–13He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.
45#Dt 28:15Moreover, all of these curses will come on you and will pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46#Isa 8:18; Eze 14:8They will be a perpetual sign and wonder in regard to you and your descendants, 47because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things. 48#Jer 28:13–14Therefore, you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and need of all things, and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49#La 4:19; Hos 8:1The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50#Isa 47:6; 2Ch 36:17a nation with a fierce countenance, which will not respect the old or show favor to the young. 51#Dt 28:33; Isa 62:8They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, wine, or oil, or the offspring of your herd or the offspring of your sheep, until they have destroyed you. 52He will lay siege on you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land, and he will lay siege on you in all your towns throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.
53#La 2:20; Lev 26:29; 2Ki 6:28–29You will eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and distress in which your enemies will persecute you. 54#Dt 13:6; 15:9The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be hostile toward his brother and toward his beloved wife and toward the rest of his children who remain, 55so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, because he has nothing left to him because of the siege and the distress by which your enemies will persecute you in all your towns. 56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, will be hostile toward her beloved husband, and toward her son and her daughter, 57and toward her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs, and toward her children whom she will bear. For she will secretly eat them because of lack during the siege and distress in which your enemy will persecute you in your towns.
58#Isa 42:8If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law that are written in this book so that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord your God, 59then the Lord will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even great long-lasting plagues, and severe and long-lasting sicknesses. 60#Dt 7:15Moreover, He will bring all the diseases of Egypt upon you, which you were afraid of, and they will cling to you. 61Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the Book of the Law will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62#Dt 4:27; 10:22You will be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63#Pr 1:26; Jer 32:41It will be that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will take pleasure over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. You will be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
64#Lev 26:33; Dt 4:27–28The Lord will scatter you among all the peoples, from the one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods, wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65#Lev 26:36; 26:16Among these nations you will find no ease, nor will the sole of your foot have rest. But there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul. 66Your life shall hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread day and night and will have no assurance of your life. 67#Dt 28:34; Job 7:3–4In the morning you will say, “Would to God it were evening!” And at evening you will say, “Would to God it were morning!” because of the fear of your heart and because of the sights your eyes will see. 68#Dt 17:16; Jer 43:7The Lord will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way by which I spoke to you, “You will not see it ever again.” And there you will be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.
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Deuteronomy 28
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1 "So then, if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all of his commandments, which I instruct to you this day, the Lord your God will cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which exist upon the earth.
2 And all these blessings shall come to you and take hold of you, but only if you listen to his precepts.
3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, and the fruit of your cattle, the droves of your herds, and the folds of your sheep.
5 Blessed shall be your barns, and blessed your storehouses.
6 Blessed shall you be entering and departing.
7 The Lord will grant that your enemies, who rise up against you, will fall down in your sight. They will come against you by one way, and they will flee from your face by seven ways.
8 The Lord will send forth a blessing upon your cellars, and upon all the works of your hands. And he will bless you in the land that you shall receive.
9 The Lord will raise you up as a holy people for himself, just as he swore to you, if you will keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord has been invoked over you, and they shall fear you.
11 The Lord will cause you be abundant in every good thing: in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, which the Lord swore to your fathers that he would give to you.
12 The Lord will open his excellent treasury, the heavens, so that it may distribute rain in due time. And he will bless all the works of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you yourself will borrow nothing from anyone.
13 And the Lord will appoint you as the head, and not as the tail. And you shall be always above, and not beneath. But only if you will listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I entrust to you this day, and will keep and do them,
14 and will not turn aside from them, neither to the right, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.
15 But if you are not willing to listen to the voice of the Lord your God, so as to keep and do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I instruct to you this day, all these curses shall come to you, and take hold of you.
16 Cursed shall you be in the city, cursed in the field.
17 Cursed shall be your barn, and cursed your storehouses.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your loins, and the fruit of your land, the herds of your oxen, and the flocks of your sheep.
19 Cursed shall you be entering, and cursed departing.
20 The Lord will send famine and hunger upon you, and a rebuke upon all the works that you do, until he quickly crushes and perishes you, because of your very wicked innovations, by which you have forsaken me.
21 May the Lord join a pestilence to you, until he consumes you from the land, which you shall enter so as to possess.
22 May the Lord strike you with destitution, with fever and cold, with burning and heat, and with polluted air and rot, and may he pursue you until you perish.
23 May the heavens which are above you be of brass, and may the ground upon which you tread be of iron.
24 May the Lord give you dust instead of rain upon your land, and may ashes descend from heaven over you, until you have been wiped away.
25 May the Lord hand you over to fall before your enemies. May you go forth against them by one way, and flee by seven ways, and may you be scattered across all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 And may your carcass be food for all the flying things of the air and the wild beasts of the land, and may there be no one to drive them away.
27 May the Lord strike you with the ulcer of Egypt, and may he strike the part of your body, through which the dung goes out, with disease as well as itch, so much so that you are unable to be cured.
28 May the Lord strike you with frenzy and blindness and a madness of the mind.
29 And may you grope at midday, just as a blind man is accustomed to grope in darkness, and may your paths not be straight. And at all times may you suffer slander and be oppressed with violence, and may you have no one who may free you.
30 May you take a wife, though another sleeps with her. May you build a house, but not live within it. May you plant a vineyard, and not gather its vintage.
31 May your ox be immolated before you, though you do not eat from it. May your donkey be seized in your sight, and not restored to you. May your sheep be given to your enemies, and may there be no one who may help you.
32 May your sons and your daughters be handed over to another people, as your eyes watch and languish at the sight of them throughout the day, and may there be no strength in your hand.
33 May a people you do not know eat the fruits of your land and of all your labors. And may you continually suffer from slander and oppression every day.
34 And may you be stupefied at the terror of the things your eyes will see.
35 May the Lord strike you with a very grievous ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and may you be unable to attain health, from the sole of the foot to the top of the head.
36 May the Lord lead you and your king, whom you will have appointed over yourself, into a nation which you and your fathers have not known. And there you will serve foreign gods, of wood and of stone.
37 And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.
38 You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.
39 You will dig and plant a vineyard, but you will not drink the wine, nor gather anything at all from it. For it will be devastated by worms.
40 You will have olive trees in all your borders, but you will not be anointed with the oil. For the olives will fall off and perish.
41 You will conceive sons and daughters, and you will not enjoy them. For they will be led into captivity.
42 Rot will consume all the trees, as well as the fruits of your land.
43 The new arrival who lives with you in the land will ascend over you, and be higher. But you will descend, and be lower.
44 He will lend to you, and you will not lend to him. He will be as the head, and you will be as the tail.
45 And all these curses shall come to you, and shall pursue you, and shall take hold of you, until you pass away, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and you would not serve his commandments and ceremonies, which he has instructed to you.
46 And there will be the signs and portents with you, and with your offspring, forever.
47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God, with gladness and a joyful heart, over the abundance of all things.
48 You will serve your enemy, whom the Lord will send to you, in hunger and thirst and nakedness, and in destitution of all things. And he will place an iron yoke upon your neck, until he has crushed you.
49 The Lord will lead over you a nation from far away, even from the furthest parts of the earth, like an eagle flying with great force, whose language you are not able to understand:
50 a very insolent nation, which will show no deference to elders, nor take pity on little ones.
51 And he will devour the fruit of your cattle, and the fruits of your land, until you have passed away, without leaving behind you wheat, or wine, or oil, or herds of oxen, or flocks of sheep: until he utterly destroys you.
52 And he will crush you in all your cities. And your strong and lofty walls, in which you trusted, will be destroyed throughout all your land. You will be besieged within your gates throughout all your land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
53 And you will eat the fruit of your womb, and the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the Lord your God will give to you, due to the anguish and devastation with which your enemy will oppress you.
54 The man who is pampered and very self-indulgent among you will vie with his own brother, and with the wife who lies at his bosom,
55 lest he give to them from the flesh of his sons, which he will eat. For he has nothing else due to the siege and the destitution, with which your enemies will devastate you within all your gates.
56 The tender and pampered woman, who would not walk upon the soil, nor step firmly with her foot due to her very great softness and tenderness, will vie with her husband, who lies at her bosom, over the flesh of son and of daughter,
57 and over the filth of the afterbirth, which goes forth from between her thighs, and over the children who are born in the same hour. For they will eat them secretly, due to the scarcity of all things during the siege and the devastation, with which your enemy will oppress you within your gates.
58 If you will not keep and do all the words of this law, which have been written in this volume, and fear his glorious and terrible name, that is, the Lord your God,
59 then the Lord will increase your plagues, and the plagues of your offspring, plagues great and long-lasting, infirmities very grievous and continuous.
60 And he will turn back upon you all the afflictions of Egypt, which you fear, and these will cling to you.
61 In addition, the Lord will lead over you all the diseases and plagues that are not written in the volume of this law, until he crushes you.
62 And you will remain few in number, though you were before like the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
63 And just as before, when the Lord rejoiced over you, doing good for you and multiplying you, so shall he rejoice, scattering and overturning you, so as to take you away from the land, which you shall enter in order to possess.
64 The Lord will disperse you among all the peoples, from the heights of the earth to its furthest limits. And there you will serve foreign gods of wood and of stone, which you and your fathers did not know.
65 Similarly, you will not have tranquility, even within those nations, nor will there be any rest for the steps of your feet. For the Lord will give to you in that place a fearful heart, and failing eyes, and a life consumed with grieving.
66 And your life will be as if it were hanging before you. You will be afraid night and day, and you will not have confidence in your own life.
67 In the morning you will say, 'Who will grant evening to me?' and at evening, 'Who will grant morning to me?' because of the dread of your heart, with which you will be terrified, and because of those things that you will see with your eyes.
68 The Lord will lead you back into Egypt with a fleet of ships, along the way, about which he said to you that you would not see it again. In that place, you will be put up for sale as men and women servants to your enemies, but there will be no one willing to buy you."
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