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Deuteronomy 28
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The Covenant Blessings

28 “If you indeed[a] obey the Lord your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving[b] you today, the Lord your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth. 2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance[c] if you obey the Lord your God: 3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field.[d] 4 Your children[e] will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 5 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.[f] 7 The Lord will cause your enemies who attack[g] you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction[h] but flee from you in seven different directions. 8 The Lord will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do—yes, he will bless you in the land he[i] is giving you. 9 The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments[j] and obey him.[k] 10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord,[l] and they will respect you. 11 The Lord will greatly multiply your children,[m] the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land that he[n] promised your ancestors[o] he would give you. 12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do;[p] you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any. 13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his[q] commandments that I am urging[r] you today to be careful to do. 14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving[s] you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship[t] them.

Curses as Reversal of Blessings

15 “But if you ignore[u] the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:[v] 16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field. 17 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed. 18 Your children[w] will be cursed, as well as the produce of your soil, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.[x]

Curses by Disease and Drought

20 “The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you[y] in everything you undertake[z] until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.[aa] 21 The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases[ab] until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess. 22 He[ac] will afflict you with weakness,[ad] fever, inflammation, infection,[ae] sword,[af] blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish. 23 The[ag] sky[ah] above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror[ai] to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off. 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will also subject you to madness, blindness, and confusion of mind.[aj] 29 You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do;[ak] you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you. 30 You will be engaged to a woman, and another man will rape[al] her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes, but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies, and there will be no one to save you. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you look on in vain all day, and you will be powerless to do anything about it.[am] 33 As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. 34 You will go insane from seeing all this. 35 The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils—from the soles of your feet to the top of your head. 36 The Lord will force you and your king[an] whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there. 37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

The Curse of Reversed Status

38 “You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory, but you will not anoint yourself with olive oil, because the olives will drop off the trees while still unripe.[ao] 41 You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity. 42 Whirring locusts[ap] will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil. 43 The resident foreigners[aq] who reside among you will become higher and higher over you, and you will become lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them; they will become the head, and you will become the tail!

45 “All these curses will fall on you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping his commandments and statutes that he has given[ar] you. 46 These curses[as] will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.[at]

The Curse of Military Siege

47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty[au] you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They[av] will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you. 49 The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth[aw] as the eagle flies,[ax] a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young. 51 They[ay] will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds,[az] or lambs of your flocks[ba] until they have destroyed you. 52 They will besiege all of your villages[bb] until all of your high and fortified walls collapse—those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you. 53 You will then eat your own offspring,[bc] the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege[bd] by which your enemies will constrict you. 54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children. 55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict[be] you in your villages. 56 Likewise, the most[bf] tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness,[bg] will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters, 57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth[bh] and her newborn children[bi] (since she has nothing else),[bj] because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

The Curse of Covenant Termination

58 “If you refuse to obey[bk] all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants—great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses. 60 He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt[bl] that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.[bm] 61 Moreover, the Lord will bring upon you every kind of sickness and plague not mentioned in this scroll of commandments,[bn] until you have perished. 62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky,[bo] because you will have disobeyed[bp] the Lord your God. 63 This is what will happen: Just as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, so he[bq] will also take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess. 64 The Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone. 65 Among those nations you will have no rest, nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 66 Your life will hang in doubt before you; you will be terrified by night and day and will have no certainty of surviving from one day to the next.[br] 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see. 68 Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by ship, over a route I said to you that you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:1 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”
  2. Deuteronomy 28:1 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today” (likewise in v. 15).
  3. Deuteronomy 28:2 tn Heb “come upon you and overtake you” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “come upon you and accompany you.”
  4. Deuteronomy 28:3 tn Or “in the country” (so NAB, NIV, NLT). This expression also occurs in v. 15.
  5. Deuteronomy 28:4 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
  6. Deuteronomy 28:6 sn Come in…go out. To “come in” and “go out” is a figure of speech (merism) indicating all of life and its activities.
  7. Deuteronomy 28:7 tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).
  8. Deuteronomy 28:7 tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).
  9. Deuteronomy 28:8 tn Heb “the Lord your God.” Because English would not typically reintroduce the proper name following a relative pronoun (“he will bless…the Lord your God is giving”), the pronoun (“he”) has been employed here in the translation.
  10. Deuteronomy 28:9 tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.
  11. Deuteronomy 28:9 tn Heb “and walk in his ways” (so NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
  12. Deuteronomy 28:10 tn Heb “the name of the Lord is called over you.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership; see 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1, as well as BDB 896 s.v. קָרָא Niph. 2.d.(4).
  13. Deuteronomy 28:11 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); CEV “will give you a lot of children.”
  14. Deuteronomy 28:11 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
  15. Deuteronomy 28:11 tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).
  16. Deuteronomy 28:12 tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”
  17. Deuteronomy 28:13 tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
  18. Deuteronomy 28:13 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”
  19. Deuteronomy 28:14 tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”
  20. Deuteronomy 28:14 tn Heb “in order to serve.”
  21. Deuteronomy 28:15 tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”
  22. Deuteronomy 28:15 tn Heb “and overtake you” (so NIV, NRSV); NAB, NLT “and overwhelm you.”
  23. Deuteronomy 28:18 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV).
  24. Deuteronomy 28:19 sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.
  25. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke” (NASB and NIV similar); NRSV “disaster, panic, and frustration.”
  26. Deuteronomy 28:20 tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
  27. Deuteronomy 28:20 tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either “Lord” (Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me”; CEV “all because you rejected the Lord.”
  28. Deuteronomy 28:21 tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”
  29. Deuteronomy 28:22 tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
  30. Deuteronomy 28:22 tn Or perhaps “consumption” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV). The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength (cf. NAB “wasting”; NIV, NLT “wasting disease”).
  31. Deuteronomy 28:22 tn Heb “hot fever”; NIV “scorching heat.”
  32. Deuteronomy 28:22 tn Or “drought” (so NIV, NRSV, NLT).
  33. Deuteronomy 28:23 tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”
  34. Deuteronomy 28:23 tn Or “heavens” (also in the following verse). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
  35. Deuteronomy 28:25 tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (zaʿavah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zevaʿah, “terror”).
  36. Deuteronomy 28:28 tn Heb “heart” (so KJV, NASB).
  37. Deuteronomy 28:29 tn Heb “you will not cause your ways to prosper.”
  38. Deuteronomy 28:30 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.
  39. Deuteronomy 28:32 tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand”; NCV “there will be nothing you can do.”
  40. Deuteronomy 28:36 tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
  41. Deuteronomy 28:40 tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (נָשַׁל, nashal), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen. Elsewhere זַיִת (zayit, “olive”) can refer to an olive, the tree branch, the tree, or the grove. Agriculturally it might make the most sense to mean the olive flower (cf. Job 15:33). Whether the flowers drop off without being fertilized, or the olives drop off while unripe, the harvest is lost.
  42. Deuteronomy 28:42 tn The Hebrew term denotes some sort of buzzing or whirring insect; some have understood this to be a type of locust (KJV, NIV, CEV), but other insects have also been suggested: “buzzing insects” (NAB); “the cricket” (NASB); “the cicada” (NRSV).
  43. Deuteronomy 28:43 tn Heb “the foreigner.” This is a collective singular and has therefore been translated as plural; this includes the pronouns in the following verse, which are also singular in the Hebrew text.
  44. Deuteronomy 28:45 tn Heb “commanded”; NAB, NIV, TEV “he gave you.”
  45. Deuteronomy 28:46 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  46. Deuteronomy 28:46 tn Heb “seed” (so KJV, ASV).
  47. Deuteronomy 28:48 tn Heb “lack of everything.”
  48. Deuteronomy 28:48 tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).
  49. Deuteronomy 28:49 tn Heb “from the end of the earth.”
  50. Deuteronomy 28:49 tn Some translations understand this to mean “like an eagle swoops down” (e.g., NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT), comparing the swift attack of an eagle to the attack of the Israelites’ enemies.
  51. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “it” (so NRSV), a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).
  52. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “increase of herds.”
  53. Deuteronomy 28:51 tn Heb “growth of flocks.”
  54. Deuteronomy 28:52 tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.
  55. Deuteronomy 28:53 tn Heb “the fruit of your womb” (so NAB, NRSV); NASB “the offspring of your own body.”
  56. Deuteronomy 28:53 tn Heb “siege and stress.”
  57. Deuteronomy 28:55 tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”
  58. Deuteronomy 28:56 tc The LXX adds σφόδρα (sphodra, “very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.
  59. Deuteronomy 28:56 tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”
  60. Deuteronomy 28:57 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
  61. Deuteronomy 28:57 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
  62. Deuteronomy 28:57 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”
  63. Deuteronomy 28:58 tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”
  64. Deuteronomy 28:60 sn These are the plagues the Lord inflicted on the Egyptians prior to the exodus which, though they did not fall upon the Israelites, must have caused great terror (cf. Exod 15:26).
  65. Deuteronomy 28:60 tn Heb “will cling to you” (so NIV); NLT “will claim you.”
  66. Deuteronomy 28:61 tn The Hebrew term תּוֹרָה (torah) can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the book of Deuteronomy or even (3) only to this curse section of the covenant text. “Scroll” better reflects the actual document, since “book” conveys the notion of a bound book with pages to the modern English reader. Cf. KJV, NASB, NRSV “the book of this law”; NIV, NLT “this Book of the Law”; TEV “this book of God’s laws and teachings.”
  67. Deuteronomy 28:62 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
  68. Deuteronomy 28:62 tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
  69. Deuteronomy 28:63 tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
  70. Deuteronomy 28:66 tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.
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Deuteronomio 28
La Biblia de las Américas

Bendiciones de la obediencia

28 (A)Y sucederá que si obedeces diligentemente al[a] Señor tu Dios, cuidando de cumplir todos sus mandamientos que yo te mando hoy, el Señor tu Dios te pondrá en alto sobre todas las naciones de la tierra(B). 2 Y todas estas bendiciones vendrán sobre ti y te alcanzarán(C), si obedeces al[b] Señor tu Dios: 3 Bendito serás en la ciudad, y bendito serás en el campo(D). 4 Bendito el fruto de tu vientre, el producto[c] de tu suelo, el fruto de tu ganado, el aumento de tus vacas y las crías de tus ovejas. 5 Benditas serán tu canasta y tu artesa. 6 Bendito serás cuando entres, y bendito serás cuando salgas(E).

7 El Señor hará que los enemigos que se levanten contra ti sean derrotados[d] delante de ti; saldrán contra ti por un camino y huirán delante de ti por siete caminos. 8 El Señor mandará que la bendición sea contigo en tus graneros y en todo aquello en que pongas tu mano(F), y te bendecirá en la tierra que el Señor tu Dios te da. 9 Te establecerá el Señor como pueblo santo para sí(G), como te juró, si guardas los mandamientos del Señor tu Dios y andas en sus caminos. 10 Entonces verán todos los pueblos de la tierra que sobre ti es invocado[e] el nombre del Señor(H); y te temerán. 11 Y el Señor te hará abundar en bienes, en el fruto de tu vientre, en el fruto de tu ganado y en el producto[f] de tu suelo(I), en la tierra que el Señor juró a tus padres que te daría. 12 Abrirá el Señor para ti su buen tesoro, los cielos, para dar lluvia a tu tierra a su tiempo y para bendecir toda la obra de tu mano(J); y tú prestarás a muchas naciones, pero no tomarás prestado. 13 Y te pondrá el Señor a la cabeza y no a la cola, solo estarás encima y nunca estarás debajo, si escuchas los mandamientos del Señor tu Dios que te ordeno hoy, para que los guardes cuidadosamente[g](K); 14 no te desvíes de ninguna de las palabras que te ordeno hoy, ni a la derecha ni a la izquierda(L), para ir tras otros dioses y servirles.

Consecuencias de la desobediencia

15 (M)Pero sucederá que si no obedeces al[h] Señor tu Dios, guardando todos sus mandamientos y estatutos que te ordeno hoy, vendrán sobre ti todas estas maldiciones y te alcanzarán: 16 Maldito serás en la ciudad, y maldito serás en el campo(N). 17 Malditas serán tu canasta y tu artesa(O). 18 Maldito el fruto de tu vientre y el producto[i] de tu suelo, el aumento de tu ganado y las crías de tu rebaño(P). 19 Maldito serás cuando entres y maldito serás cuando salgas(Q).

20 Enviará el Señor sobre ti maldición, confusión y censura en todo lo que emprendas[j](R), hasta que seas destruido y hasta que perezcas rápidamente(S), a causa de la maldad de tus hechos, porque me has abandonado. 21 El Señor hará que la peste se te pegue hasta que te haya consumido de sobre la tierra adonde vas a entrar para poseerla(T). 22 Te herirá el Señor de tisis, de fiebre(U), de inflamación y de gran ardor, con la espada[k], con tizón y con añublo(V); y te perseguirán hasta que perezcas(W). 23 Y el[l] cielo que está encima de tu cabeza será de bronce, y la tierra que está debajo de ti, de hierro. 24 Y el Señor hará que la lluvia de tu tierra sea polvo y ceniza; descenderá del cielo sobre ti hasta que seas destruido(X). 25 El Señor hará que seas derrotado[m] delante de tus enemigos(Y); saldrás contra ellos por un camino, pero huirás por siete caminos delante de ellos, y serás ejemplo de terror para todos los reinos de la tierra(Z). 26 Y tus cadáveres serán alimento para todas las aves del cielo y para los animales de la tierra, y no habrá nadie que los espante(AA).

27 Te herirá el Señor con los furúnculos de Egipto y con tumores, sarna y comezón, de los que no podrás ser sanado(AB). 28 Te herirá el Señor con locura, con ceguera y con turbación de corazón[n]; 29 y andarás a tientas a mediodía como el ciego anda a tientas en la oscuridad(AC), y no serás prosperado en tus caminos; más bien serás oprimido y robado continuamente, sin que nadie te salve. 30 Te desposarás con una mujer, pero otro hombre se acostará con ella(AD); edificarás una casa, pero no habitarás en ella; plantarás una viña, pero no aprovecharás su fruto[o](AE). 31 Tu buey será degollado delante de tus ojos, pero no comerás de él; tu asno será arrebatado, y no te será devuelto; tu oveja será dada a tus enemigos, y no tendrás quien te salve. 32 Tus hijos y tus hijas serán dados a otro pueblo(AF), mientras tus ojos miran y desfallecen por ellos continuamente, pero no habrá nada que puedas hacer[p]. 33 Un pueblo que no conoces comerá el producto de tu suelo y de todo tu trabajo, y no serás más que un pueblo oprimido y quebrantado todos los días(AG). 34 Y te volverás loco por lo que verán tus ojos[q]. 35 Te herirá el Señor en las rodillas y en las piernas con pústulas malignas de las que no podrás ser sanado(AH), desde la planta de tu pie hasta la coronilla. 36 El Señor te llevará a ti y a tu rey, al que hayas puesto sobre ti, a una nación que ni tú ni tus padres habéis conocido(AI), y allí servirás a otros dioses de madera y de piedra(AJ). 37 Y vendrás a ser motivo de horror, proverbio y burla entre todos los pueblos donde el Señor te lleve(AK).

38 Sacarás mucha semilla al campo, pero recogerás poco(AL), porque la langosta la devorará(AM). 39 Plantarás y cultivarás viñas, pero no beberás del vino ni recogerás las uvas(AN), porque el gusano se las comerá. 40 Tendrás olivos por todo tu territorio pero no te ungirás con el aceite, porque tus aceitunas se caerán(AO). 41 Tendrás[r] hijos e hijas, pero no serán tuyos(AP), porque irán al cautiverio. 42 Todos tus árboles y el fruto de tu suelo los consumirá[s] la langosta[t](AQ). 43 El forastero que esté en medio de ti se elevará sobre ti cada vez más alto, pero tú descenderás cada vez más bajo(AR). 44 Él te prestará, pero tú no le prestarás a él(AS); él será la cabeza y tú serás la cola(AT). 45 Y todas estas maldiciones vendrán sobre ti y te perseguirán y te alcanzarán hasta que seas destruido(AU), porque tú no escuchaste la voz del Señor tu Dios, no guardando los mandamientos y estatutos que Él te mandó. 46 Y serán señal y maravilla(AV) sobre ti y sobre tu descendencia[u] para siempre. 47 Por cuanto no serviste al Señor tu Dios con alegría y con gozo de corazón, cuando tenías[v] la abundancia de todas las cosas(AW), 48 por tanto servirás a tus enemigos, los cuales el Señor enviará contra ti: en hambre, en sed, en desnudez y en escasez de todas las cosas(AX); Él pondrá yugo de hierro sobre tu cuello(AY) hasta que te haya destruido.

49 El Señor levantará contra ti una nación de lejos, desde el extremo de la tierra(AZ), que descenderá rauda como águila(BA), una nación cuya lengua no entenderás(BB), 50 una nación de rostro fiero que no tendrá respeto al anciano(BC) ni tendrá compasión del niño[w]. 51 Se comerá la cría[x] de tu ganado y el fruto de tu suelo, hasta que seas destruido; tampoco te dejará grano, ni mosto, ni aceite, ni el aumento de tu ganado, ni las crías de tu rebaño, hasta que te haya hecho perecer. 52 Y esa nación te pondrá sitio en todas tus ciudades[y], hasta que tus muros altos y fortificados en los cuales tú confiabas caigan por toda tu tierra; y te sitiará en todas tus ciudades[z](BD), por toda la tierra que el Señor tu Dios te ha dado. 53 Entonces comerás el fruto de tu vientre, la carne de tus hijos y de tus hijas(BE) que el Señor tu Dios te ha dado, en el asedio y en la angustia con que tu enemigo te oprimirá[aa]. 54 El hombre que es tierno[ab] y muy delicado en medio de ti, será hostil[ac] hacia su hermano, hacia la mujer que ama[ad] y hacia el resto de sus hijos que le queden, 55 y no dará a ninguno de ellos nada de la carne de sus hijos que se comerá, ya que no le quedará nada en el asedio y en la angustia con que tu enemigo te oprimirá[ae] en todas tus ciudades[af]. 56 La mujer tierna[ag] y delicada en medio tuyo, que no osaría poner la planta de su pie en tierra por ser delicada y tierna, será hostil[ah] hacia el esposo que ama[ai], también hacia su hijo, hacia su hija(BF), 57 hacia la placenta que salga de su seno[aj] y hacia los hijos que dé a luz(BG); porque se los comerá en secreto por falta de otra cosa, en el asedio y en la angustia con que tu enemigo te oprimirá[ak] en tus ciudades[al].

58 Si no cuidas de poner en práctica todas las palabras de esta ley que están escritas en este libro, temiendo[am] este nombre glorioso y temible(BH), el Señor tu Dios(BI), 59 entonces el Señor hará horribles tus plagas y las plagas de tus descendientes[an], plagas severas[ao] y duraderas, y enfermedades perniciosas y crónicas. 60 Y traerá de nuevo sobre ti todas las enfermedades de Egipto(BJ) de las cuales tenías temor, y no te dejarán[ap]. 61 También toda enfermedad y toda plaga que no están escritas en el libro de esta ley, el Señor traerá sobre ti hasta que seas destruido(BK). 62 Y quedaréis pocos en número, aunque erais multitud como las estrellas del cielo(BL); porque no obedeciste al[aq] Señor tu Dios. 63 Y sucederá que tal como el Señor se deleitaba en vosotros para prosperaros y multiplicaros(BM), así el Señor se deleitará en vosotros para haceros perecer y destruiros(BN); y seréis arrancados de la tierra en la cual entráis para poseerla(BO). 64 Además, el Señor te dispersará entre todos los pueblos de un extremo de la tierra hasta el otro extremo de la tierra(BP); y allí servirás a otros dioses, de madera y de piedra, que ni tú ni tus padres habéis conocido(BQ). 65 Y entre esas naciones no hallarás descanso(BR), y no habrá reposo para la planta de tu pie, sino que allí el Señor te dará un corazón temeroso(BS), desfallecimiento de ojos y desesperación de alma. 66 Y tendrás la vida pendiente de un hilo[ar]; y estarás aterrado de noche y de día, y no tendrás seguridad de tu vida. 67 Por la mañana dirás: «¡Oh, si fuera la tarde!». Y por la tarde dirás: «¡Oh, si fuera la mañana(BT)!» por causa del espanto de tu corazón con que temerás y por lo que verán tus ojos[as]. 68 Y te hará volver el Señor a Egipto en naves, por el camino del cual yo te había dicho: «Nunca más volverás a verlo». Y allí os ofreceréis en venta como esclavos y esclavas a vuestros enemigos, pero no habrá comprador.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomio 28:1 Lit., escuchas la voz del
  2. Deuteronomio 28:2 Lit., escuchas la voz del
  3. Deuteronomio 28:4 Lit., fruto
  4. Deuteronomio 28:7 Lit., heridos
  5. Deuteronomio 28:10 O, que eres llamado por
  6. Deuteronomio 28:11 Lit., fruto
  7. Deuteronomio 28:13 Lit., para guardar y para hacer
  8. Deuteronomio 28:15 Lit., si no escuchas la voz del
  9. Deuteronomio 28:18 Lit., fruto
  10. Deuteronomio 28:20 Lit., el extender de tu mano que haces
  11. Deuteronomio 28:22 Otra posible lectura es: sequía
  12. Deuteronomio 28:23 Lit., tu
  13. Deuteronomio 28:25 Lit., herido
  14. Deuteronomio 28:28 O, espíritu
  15. Deuteronomio 28:30 Lit., no la comenzarás
  16. Deuteronomio 28:32 Lit., nada en el poder de tu mano
  17. Deuteronomio 28:34 Lit., el espectáculo de tus ojos que verás
  18. Deuteronomio 28:41 Lit., Engendrarás
  19. Deuteronomio 28:42 Lit., poseerá
  20. Deuteronomio 28:42 O, el grillo
  21. Deuteronomio 28:46 Lit., simiente
  22. Deuteronomio 28:47 Lit., por
  23. Deuteronomio 28:50 O, joven
  24. Deuteronomio 28:51 Lit., el fruto
  25. Deuteronomio 28:52 Lit., puertas
  26. Deuteronomio 28:52 Lit., puertas
  27. Deuteronomio 28:53 O, angustiará
  28. Deuteronomio 28:54 O, refinado
  29. Deuteronomio 28:54 Lit., su ojo será malo
  30. Deuteronomio 28:54 Lit., de su seno
  31. Deuteronomio 28:55 O, angustiará
  32. Deuteronomio 28:55 Lit., puertas
  33. Deuteronomio 28:56 O, refinada
  34. Deuteronomio 28:56 Lit., su ojo será malo
  35. Deuteronomio 28:56 Lit., de su seno
  36. Deuteronomio 28:57 Lit., de entre sus pies
  37. Deuteronomio 28:57 O, angustiará
  38. Deuteronomio 28:57 Lit., puertas
  39. Deuteronomio 28:58 O, reverenciando
  40. Deuteronomio 28:59 Lit., y plaga sobre tu simiente
  41. Deuteronomio 28:59 Lit., grandes
  42. Deuteronomio 28:60 Lit., y se pegarán a ti
  43. Deuteronomio 28:62 Lit., no escuchaste la voz del
  44. Deuteronomio 28:66 Lit., La vida te será colgada delante
  45. Deuteronomio 28:67 Lit., el espectáculo de tus ojos que verás
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