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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Deuteronomy 28
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Blessings for Obedience
1“Now # Lv 26:3-13 if you faithfully obey the Lord your God # Ex 15:26; 19:5; 23:22; Dt 11:13; 15:5; Jr 17:24; Zch 6:15 and are careful to follow all His commands I am giving you today, # Dt 13:18; 30:8 the Lord your God will put you far above all the nations of the earth. # Gn 18:18; 22:18; Jr 33:9; Zch 12:3 2All these blessings will come and overtake # Dt 28:15,45; Is 35:10; 51:11; Zch 1:6 you, because you obey the Lord your God:
3You will be blessed in the city
and blessed in the country. # Dt 28:16
4Your descendants # Lit The fruit of your womb will be blessed,
and your land’s produce,
and the offspring of your livestock,
including the young of your herds
and the newborn of your flocks. # Dt 7:13
5Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
6You will be blessed when you come in
and blessed when you go out. # Dt 28:19; 2Kg 19:27; Is 37:28
7“The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions. 8The Lord will grant you a blessing on your storehouses and on everything you do; # Lit you put your hand to # Pr 3:10 He will bless you in the land the Lord your God is giving you. # Dt 15:4; 30:16 9The Lord will establish you as His holy people, # Ex 22:31; Dt 7:6; 14:2,21; 26:19; Is 62:12; 63:18 as He swore to you, if you obey the commands of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 10Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, # 1Kg 8:60; 2Ch 6:33; Zph 3:20 and they will stand in awe of you. # Dt 2:4; Mc 7:17 11The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with children, # Lit abundantly in the fruit of your womb the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12The Lord will open for you His abundant storehouse, # Ps 135:7; Jr 10:13; 51:16 the sky, to give your land rain in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. # Dt 2:7; 14:29; 16:15; 24:19; 30:9 You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. 13The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; # Dt 28:44 you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the Lord your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them. 14Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, # 1Sm 6:12; 12:21; 1Kg 15:5; 2Kg 22:2; 2Ch 34:2 and do not go after other gods to worship them.
Curses for Disobedience
15“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake # Hs 10:9; Zch 1:6; Ps 7:5; 40:12; 69:24; Jb 27:20 you: # Lv 26:14-46
16You will be cursed in the city
and cursed in the country.
17Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.
18Your descendants # Lit The fruit of your womb will be cursed,
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.
19You will be cursed when you come in
and cursed when you go out.
20The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, # Ezk 7:7 and rebuke in everything you do # Lit you put your hand to until you are destroyed and quickly perish, # Dt 7:23,24; 28:45,48,51,61; Jos 23:15 because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning Me. # Jr 4:4; 21:12; 26:3; 44:22 21The Lord will make pestilence cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land you are entering to possess. # 1Sm 15:18; Jr 9:16; 49:37 22The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought, # Or sword blight, and mildew; # Am 4:9 these will pursue you until you perish. 23The sky above you will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. 24The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling # Lit powder and dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. 25The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. # Dt 28:7 You will be an object of horror # Jr 15:4; 24:9; 29:18; 34:17; 2Ch 29:8 to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away. # Ps 79:2; Is 5:25; 34:3; Jr 7:33; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20; Ezk 6:5; Nah 3:3
27“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, # Ex 9:9-11 tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured. 28The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion, # 2Kg 9:20; Zch 12:4 29so that at noon you will grope as a blind man gropes in the dark. # Jb 5:14; Ps 91:6; Is 59:9-10; Am 8:9; Mt 27:45 You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you. # Dt 22:27; 1Sm 11:3; 2Sm 22:42; Ps 18:41; Is 47:15 30You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. # Ac 1:20 You will plant a vineyard but not enjoy its fruit. 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away from you and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will help you. 32Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything. # Lit day, and not for power your hand # Neh 5:5 33A people you don’t know will eat your land’s produce and everything you have labored for. You will only be oppressed and crushed continually. # Jdg 10:8; Jb 20:19; Hs 5:11; Am 4:1 34You will be driven mad by what you see. 35The Lord will afflict you with painful and incurable boils on your knees and thighs — from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. # Jb 2:7; Is 1:6
36“The Lord will bring you and your king that you have appointed to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone. # Dt 4:28; 28:64; Dn 5:23 37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you. # Dt 4:27; 1Kg 9:7; 2Ch 7:20; Jr 24:9
38“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with oil, because your olives will drop off. 41You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner. 42Whirring insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce. 43The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. 44He will lend to you, but you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
45“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you. 46These curses will be a sign and a wonder # Ex 7:3; Dt 4:34; 6:22; 7:19; 26:8; Is 8:18; Jr 32:20 against you and your descendants forever. 47Because you didn’t serve the Lord your God with joy and a cheerful heart, # Pr 15:15; Ec 9:7 even though you had an abundance of everything, 48you will serve your enemies the Lord will send against you, in famine, thirst, nakedness, and a lack of everything. He will place an iron yoke # Jr 28:13-14 on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49The Lord will bring a nation from far away, from the ends of the earth, # Is 5:26 to swoop down on you like an eagle, # Jr 48:40; 49:22 a nation whose language you don’t understand, # Jr 5:15 50a ruthless nation, # Lit a nation strong of face showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young. 51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish. 52They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
53“You will eat your children, # Lit eat the fruit of your womb the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you # Lv 26:29; 2Kg 6:25-29; Jr 19:9; Lm 2:20; 4:10; Ezk 5:10 during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you. 54The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly # Lit you his eye will be evil at his brother, the wife he embraces, # Lit wife of his bosom and the rest of his children, 55refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns. 56The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter, 57the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.
58“If you are not careful to obey all the words of this law, which are written in this scroll, by fearing this glorious and awesome name — Yahweh, your God — 59He will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses. 60He will afflict you again with all the diseases of Egypt, # Dt 7:15 which you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed. 62Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess. 64Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, # Lv 26:33; Dt 4:27; Neh 1:8; Ezk 22:15 and there you will worship other gods, of wood and stone, # Dt 4:28; 28:36; 2Kg 19:18; Ezk 20:32; Dn 5:4,23 which neither you nor your fathers have known. # Dt 8:16; 13:6; 28:36 65You will find no peace among those nations, and there will be no resting place # Gn 8:9; Dt 12:9 for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despondent spirit. 66Your life will hang in doubt before you. You will be in dread night and day, never certain of survival. 67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening! ’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning! ’ — because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see. 68The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. # Dt 17:16 There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
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