Deuteronomy 28:15-24

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Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵However, if you do not obey^(A) the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today,^(B) all these curses will come on you and overtake you:^(C)

¹⁶You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.^(D)

¹⁷Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.^(E)

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.^(F)

¹⁹You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.^(G)

²⁰The Lord will send on you curses,^(H) confusion and rebuke^(I) in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin^(J) because of the evil^(K) 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.^(L) ²²The Lord will strike you with wasting disease,^(M) with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought,^(N) with blight^(O) and mildew, which will plague^(P) you until you perish.^(Q) ²³The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.^(R) ²⁴The Lord will turn the rain^(S) of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 28:20 Hebrew me

Joel 1:10-20

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¹⁰The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(A)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(B) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(C)

¹¹Despair, you farmers,^(D)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,^(E)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.^(F)
¹²The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(G)
the pomegranate,^(H) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(I)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

A Call to Lamentation

¹³Put on sackcloth,^(J) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister^(K) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings^(L)
    are withheld from the house of your God.
¹⁴Declare a holy fast;^(M)
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land^(N)
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out^(O) to the Lord.^(P)

¹⁵Alas for that^(Q) day!
For the day of the Lord^(R) is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.^[b]^(S)

¹⁶Has not the food been cut off^(T)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness^(U)
    from the house of our God?^(V)
¹⁷The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.^[c]^(W)
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.
¹⁸How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;^(X)
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.^(Y)

¹⁹To you, Lord, I call,^(Z)
    for fire^(AA) has devoured the pastures^(AB) in the wilderness
    and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
²⁰Even the wild animals pant for you;^(AC)
    the streams of water have dried up^(AD)
    and fire has devoured the pastures^(AE) in the wilderness.