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Listen to Deuteronomy 28:18-34
18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.(A)
19You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.(B)
20The Lord will send on you curses,(C) confusion and rebuke(D) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin(E) because of the evil(F) you have done in forsaking him.[a] 21The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess.(G) 22The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,(H) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,(I) with blight(J) and mildew, which will plague(K) you until you perish.(L) 23The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.(M) 24The Lord will turn the rain(N) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.
25The Lord will cause you to be defeated(O) before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven,(P) and you will become a thing of horror(Q) to all the kingdoms on earth.(R) 26Your carcasses will be food for all the birds(S) and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.(T) 27The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt(U) and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29At midday you will grope(V) about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue(W) you.
30You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her.(X) You will build a house, but you will not live in it.(Y) You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.(Z) 31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation,(AA) and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression(AB) all your days.(AC) 34The sights you see will drive you mad.(AD)
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Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me
Cross references
- Deuteronomy 28:18 : ver 4
- Deuteronomy 28:19 : ver 6
- Deuteronomy 28:20 : ver 8, 15; Lev 26:16; Jer 42:18; Mal 2:2; 3:9; 4:6
- Deuteronomy 28:20 : Ps 39:11; 76:6; 80:16; Isa 17:13; 51:20; 54:9; 66:15; Eze 5:15
- Deuteronomy 28:20 : Dt 4:26
- Deuteronomy 28:20 : S Ex 32:22
- Deuteronomy 28:21 : Lev 26:25; Nu 14:12; Jer 24:10; Am 4:10
- Deuteronomy 28:22 : ver 48; Dt 32:24
- Deuteronomy 28:22 : Lev 26:16; 2Ki 8:1; Job 12:15; Ps 105:16; Jer 14:1; Hag 1:11; Mal 3:9
- Deuteronomy 28:22 : Hag 2:17
- Deuteronomy 28:22 : S Lev 26:25
- Deuteronomy 28:22 : Dt 4:26; Am 4:9
- Deuteronomy 28:23 : S Lev 26:19
- Deuteronomy 28:24 : Lev 26:19; Dt 11:17; 1Ki 8:35; 17:1; Isa 5:6; Jer 14:1; Hag 1:10
- Deuteronomy 28:25 : 1Sa 4:10; Ps 78:62
- Deuteronomy 28:25 : S Lev 26:17
- Deuteronomy 28:25 : ver 37
- Deuteronomy 28:25 : 2Ch 29:8; 30:7; Jer 15:4; 24:9; 26:6; 29:18; 44:12; Eze 23:46
- Deuteronomy 28:26 : S Ge 40:19
- Deuteronomy 28:26 : Ps 79:2; Isa 18:6; Jer 7:33; 12:9; 15:2; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20
- Deuteronomy 28:27 : Dt 7:15
- Deuteronomy 28:29 : Ge 19:11; Ex 10:21; Job 5:14; 12:25; 24:13; 38:15; Isa 59:10
- Deuteronomy 28:29 : Jdg 3:9; 2Ki 13:5; Est 4:14; Isa 19:20; 43:11; Hos 13:4; Ob 1:21
- Deuteronomy 28:30 : Job 31:10
- Deuteronomy 28:30 : Isa 65:22; Am 5:11
- Deuteronomy 28:30 : Jer 12:13
- Deuteronomy 28:32 : ver 41
- Deuteronomy 28:33 : Jer 6:6; 22:17
- Deuteronomy 28:33 : Jer 5:15-17; Eze 25:4
- Deuteronomy 28:34 : ver 67
18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
27The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
31Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.
33The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
34So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
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