Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Modern English Version

Blessings for Obedience

28 Now 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 And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you if you listen to the voice of the Lord your God.

³ You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.

⁴ Your 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.

⁵ Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

⁶ You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

⁷ The 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 The 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 The 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 All people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. ¹¹ The 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 The 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 The 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 Also, 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.