신명기 28
Korean Living Bible
순종에 대한 축복
28 “만일 여러분이 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 순종하고 내가 오늘 여러분에게 가르치는 여호와의 모든 명령을 충실히 지키면 여러 분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분을 세계에서 가장 뛰어난 민족이 되게 하실 것입니다.
2 만일 여러분이 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 순종하면 다음과 같은 복을 받게 될 것입니다.
3 “여러분이 [a]가정에서도 복을 받고 일터에서도 복을 받을 것이며
4 자손이 번성하고 농사가 잘 되고 가축이 증식하며
5 먹을 것이 풍성할 것입니다.
6 그리고 여러분이 하는 일마다 복을 받아 다 잘 될 것입니다.
7 “여호와께서는 여러분을 치러 오는 여러분의 원수들을 여러분 앞에서 패하게 하실 것입니다. 그래서 그들이 여러분을 공격하려고 떼를 지어 쳐들어왔다가 사방 뿔뿔이 흩어져 달아날 것입니다.
8 “여호와께서 여러분이 하는 모든 일에 복을 주셔서 여러분의 창고가 가득 차게 하실 것입니다. 이와 같이 여호와께서는 여러분에게 주실 땅에서 여러분을 축복하실 것입니다.
9 “만일 여러분이 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 순종하고 그분이 명령하신 모든 것을 지키면 여호와께서 약속하신 대로 여러분을 그의 거룩한 백성이 되게 하실 것입니다.
10 그러면 세상의 모든 민족이 여호와께서 여러분을 자기 백성으로 택한 것을 보고 여러분을 두려워할 것입니다.
11 “여호와께서는 여러분에게 주겠다고 여러분의 조상들에게 약속하신 땅에서 여러분에게 많은 자녀와 수많은 가축과 풍성한 농작물을 주실 것이며
12 또 하늘 문을 열어서 철따라 단비를 내려 곡식이 잘 되게 하시고 여러분이 하는 모든 일에 복을 주실 것입니다. 그러면 여러분이 많은 민족에게 빌려 주기는 해도 빌리지는 않을 것입니다.
13 만일 여러분이 오늘 내가 여러분에게 가르치는 여호와의 모든 명령을 듣고 지키면 여호와께서 여러분을 머리가 되게 하고 꼬리가 되게 하지 않을 것이며 언제나 여러분을 높여 주실 것입니다.
14 그러므로 여러분은 무슨 일이 있어도 오늘 내가 여러분에게 전하는 여호와의 명령을 떠나 다른 신을 섬기거나 경배해서는 안 됩니다.”
불순종에 대한 저주
15 “그러나 만일 여러분이 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 순종하지 않고 오늘 내가 여러분에게 가르치는 그분의 모든 명령과 법을 지키지 않으면 다음과 같은 저주가 여러분에게 내릴 것입니다.
16 “여러분이 가정에서도 저주를 받고 일터에서도 저주를 받을 것이며
17 여러분이 먹을 음식에 저주가 내리고
18 여러분의 자식과 농사와 가축이 저주를 받을 것입니다.
19 그리고 여러분이 하는 일마다 저주를 받아 잘 되지 않을 것입니다.
20 “만일 여러분이 악을 행하고 여호와를 저버리면 여호와께서 여러분이 하는 모든 일에 저주와 혼란과 재난을 일으켜 결국 여러분은 졸지에 망하게 될 것입니다.
21 여호와께서는 여러분이 들어가 살 땅에서 완전히 멸망할 때까지 여러분에게 질병이 떠나지 않게 하실 것입니다.
22 여호와께서 폐병과 열병과 전염병과 전쟁으로 여러분을 치고 뜨거운 바람을 일으켜 여러분의 곡식이 말라 죽게 하실 것이며 이 모든 재앙은 여러분이 전멸될 때까지 계속될 것입니다.
23 그리고 하늘에서 비가 내리지 않아 여러분의 땅이 쇳덩이처럼 굳어질 것이며
24 여호와께서 비 대신 먼지와 모래 폭풍을 일으켜 결국 여러분은 전멸되고 말 것입니다.
25 “여호와께서는 여러분을 원수 앞에서 패하게 하실 것입니다. 여러분은 그들을 공격하려고 한 길로 쳐들어갔다가 뿔뿔이 흩어져 일곱 길로 달아날 것입니다. 그러면 온 세상 사람들이 여러분이 당한 일을 보고 놀랄 것이며
26 공중의 새와 들짐승이 여러분의 시체를 먹어도 그것을 쫓아 줄 사람이 아무도 없을 것입니다.
27 여호와께서 이집트의 종기와 궤양과 괴혈병과 옴으로 여러분을 괴롭혀도 여러분을 치료해 줄 사람이 없을 것입니다.
28 또 여호와께서 여러분을 미치게 하고 눈을 멀게 하며 두려움과 공포심을 일으켜
29 여러분을 대낮에도 소경처럼 더듬게 하실 것입니다. 또 여러분이 하는 일마다 성공하지 못할 것이며 여러분이 계속 압박과 약탈을 당해도 여러분을 구해 줄 사람이 아무도 없을 것입니다.
30 “여러분이 약혼을 해도 다른 사람이 여러분의 약혼녀와 결혼할 것이며 여러분이 집을 지어도 그 집에 살지 못하고 여러분이 포도원을 가꾸어도 포도는 다른 사람이 따먹을 것입니다.
31 여러분의 소가 여러분 앞에서 도살당하여도 여러분은 고기 한 점 얻어먹지 못할 것이며 여러분의 당나귀가 여러분의 눈 앞에서 약탈당하여도 그것을 되찾을 수 없고 여러분의 양들이 원수들에게 끌려가도 여러분을 도와줄 사람이 아무도 없을 것입니다.
32 여러분의 자녀들이 다른 민족에게 노예로 끌려가고 여러분이 그들을 애타게 그리워하여도 여러분에게는 그들을 구해 낼 힘이 없을 것입니다.
33 여러분이 애써 지어 놓은 농산물을 외국 사람이 먹을 것이며 여러분은 계속 압박을 당하고 짓밟힐 것입니다.
34 그래서 여러분은 여러분의 주변에서 일어나는 불행한 일들을 보고 미쳐 버릴 것입니다.
35 여호와께서는 머리 끝에서 발바닥까지 여러분의 온 몸을 종기로 덮어 버릴 것입니다.
36 “여호와께서 여러분과 여러분의 조상들이 알지 못하는 외국 땅으로 여러분과 여러분의 왕을 끌고 갈 것이며 거기서 여러분은 나무나 돌로 만든 다른 신들을 섬기게 될 것입니다.
37 여호와께서 여러분을 세계 각처에 흩어 버리실 것이므로 여러분은 모든 민족들에게 놀람과 비웃음과 조소의 대상이 될 것입니다.
38 “여러분이 많이 심어도 메뚜기가 여러분의 농작물을 먹어 추수할 것이 적을 것이며
39 여러분이 포도를 심고 가꾸어도 벌레가 먹기 때문에 포도를 따지 못하고 포도주도 마시지 못할 것입니다.
40 여러분이 곳곳에 감람나무를 심어도 열매가 익기도 전에 떨어져 여러분은 감람기름을 얻지 못할 것이며
41 여러분이 자녀를 낳아도 그들이 포로로 끌려갈 것입니다.
42 그리고 메뚜기떼가 여러분의 모든 나무와 농작물을 해칠 것입니다.
43 “여러분 가운데 사는 외국인은 점점 강해지고 여러분은 점점 약해질 것입니다.
44 그들은 여러분에게 빌려 주어도 여러분은 그들에게 빌려 줄 것이 없을 것이며 그들은 머리가 되고 여러분은 꼬리가 될 것입니다.
45 “여러분이 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 순종하지 않고 그분의 모든 법과 규정을 지키지 않으므로 이 모든 저주가 언제나 여러분을 떠나지 않을 것이며 결국 여러분은 다 망하고 말 것입니다.
46 이 모든 저주는 여러분과 여러분 자손에게 영원히 경고가 될 것입니다.
47-48 모든 것이 풍족할 때 여러분이 여러분 의 하나님 여호와를 기쁘고 즐거운 마음으로 섬기지 않으면 여러분은 모든 것이 부족한 가운데 헐벗고 굶주리게 될 것이며 여호와께서 여러분을 치도록 보내신 여러분의 원수들을 섬기게 될 것입니다. 그리고 여호와께서 여러분을 완전히 멸망시킬 때까지 여러분이 원수들의 가혹한 탄압을 받게 하실 것입니다.
49 “여호와께서는 땅 끝에서 한 민족을 일으켜 여러분을 독수리처럼 덮치게 하실 것입니다. 그들은 여러분이 그 언어를 알지 못하는 민족이며
50 포악하고 무자비하여 노인을 알아보지 못하며 어린 아이를 불쌍히 여기지 않는 민족입니다.
51 그들은 여러분의 곡식과 포도주와 감람기름과 소와 양을 하나도 남기지 않고 모조리 먹어 결국 여러분을 망하게 할 것입니다.
52 그들은 여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분에게 주시는 땅의 모든 성을 포위하여 여러분을 보호해 줄 것으로 믿고 있는 높고 견고한 성벽들을 헐어 버릴 것입니다.
53 여러분은 원수들에게 포위되어 식량난을 겪다가 여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 주신 여러분의 자식까지 잡아먹게 될 것입니다.
54 심지어 유순하고 인정 많은 남자들도 살아 남은 자기 형제와 사랑하는 아내와 자녀에게 몰인정하여
55 그가 먹던 자기 자녀의 고기를 아무에게도 주지 않을 것입니다. 이것은 여러분의 성이 모두 원수들에게 포위되어 그것밖에는 먹을 것이 없으므로 그가 굶어 죽게 되었기 때문입니다.
56-57 그리고 발바닥으로 땅을 밟아 보지 않은 가장 유순하고 인정 많은 여자까지도 무정하고 악독해져서 자기 몸에서 나온 갓난아이를 몰래 먹으며 사랑하는 남편과 자기 자녀에게 나누어 주지 않을 것입니다. 이것은 여러분의 성이 모두 원수들에게 포위되어 그것밖에는 먹을 것이 없으므로 그녀가 굶어 죽게 되었기 때문입니다.
58 “만일 여러분이 이 책에 기록된 여호와의 모든 말씀을 충실히 지키지 않고 여러분의 하나님 여호와의 영광스럽고 두려운 이름을 높이지 않으면
59 여호와께서 여러분과 여러분의 자녀들에게 무서운 재앙과 질병을 끊임없이 보내실 것입니다.
60 여호와께서는 여러분이 무서워하던 이집트의 모든 질병을 끌어다가 여러분을 괴롭힐 것이며
61 또 이 책에 기록되지 않은 모든 질병과 재앙까지 여러분에게 내려 여러분이 멸망할 때까지 여러분을 벌하실 것입니다.
62 비록 여러분이 하늘의 별처럼 많을지라도 여러분의 하나님 여호와께 순종하지 않았으므로 여러분 중에 살아 남는 자가 얼마 되지 않을 것입니다.
63 여러분을 잘 되게 하고 여러분을 번성하게 하는 일을 기뻐하시던 여호와께서 이제는 여러분을 파멸하고 멸망시키는 일을 기뻐하실 것입니다. 그래서 여러분은 앞으로 들어가 살 그 땅에서 뿌리째 뽑히고 말 것입니다.
64 “여호와께서 여러분을 땅 이 끝에서부터 저 끝까지 온 세계에 흩어 버리실 것이며 여러분은 거기서 여러분이나 여러분의 조상들이 알지 못한 신, 곧 나무나 돌로 만든 다른 신들을 섬기게 될 것입니다.
65 여러분이 거기서는 편히 쉬지 못할 것입니다. 여호와께서 여러분에게 지치고 피곤하며 불안하고 절망적인 마음을 주셔서
66 여러분이 항상 생명의 위협을 느끼며 밤낮 두려워하고 언제 어떻게 될지 알지 못하는 가운데 불안 속에서 살게 될 것입니다.
67 여러분은 주변에서 일어나는 모든 두려운 일을 보고 아침에는 ‘저녁이 되었으면!’, 저녁에는 ‘아침이 되었으면!’ 하고 말할 것입니다.
68 나는 여러분이 다시는 이집트로 돌아갈 필요가 없을 것이라고 말했으나 여호와께서는 여러분을 배에 실어 그 곳으로 돌려보내실 것입니다. 여러분이 거기서 여러분의 원수들에게 자신을 종으로 팔려고 해도 여러분을 사려고 하는 사람이 아무도 없을 것입니다.”
Footnotes
- 28:3 원문에는 ‘성읍에서도 … … 들에서도’
Deuteronomy 28
King James Version
28 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.
3 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
7 The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.
8 The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
9 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.
10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.
11 And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
12 The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
13 And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20 The 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.
21 The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22 The 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.
23 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24 The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25 The 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.
26 And 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.
27 The 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.
28 The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
29 And 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.
30 Thou 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.
31 Thine 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.
32 Thy 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.
33 The 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:
34 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
35 The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
36 The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
39 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
40 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47 Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49 The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, The Lord Thy God;
59 Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.
63 And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
64 And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 28
English Standard Version
Blessings for Obedience
28 “And (A)if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you (B)high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and (C)overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and (D)blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be (E)the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your (F)kneading bowl. 6 Blessed shall you be (G)when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The Lord (H)will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 The Lord (I)will command the blessing on you in your barns and (J)in all that you undertake. (K)And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 (L)The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 And (M)all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are (N)called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be (O)afraid of you. 11 And (P)the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in (Q)the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, (R)to give the rain to your land in its season and (S)to bless all the work of your hands. And (T)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you (U)the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 (V)and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Curses for Disobedience
15 “But (W)if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and (X)overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be (Y)in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “The Lord (Z)will send on you curses, confusion, and (AA)frustration in all that you undertake to do, (AB)until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make (AC)the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 (AD)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with (AE)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (AF)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 (AG)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you (AH)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And (AI)your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and (AJ)there shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you (AK)with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and (AL)scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with (AM)madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall (AN)grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[b] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 (AO)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. (AP)You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. (AQ)You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 (AR)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (AS)but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad (AT)by the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs (AU)with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 “The Lord will (AV)bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you (AW)nor your fathers have known. And (AX)there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become (AY)a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 (AZ)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (BA)the locust shall consume it. 39 (BB)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you (BC)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (BD)they shall go into captivity. 42 (BE)The cricket[c] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 (BF)The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 (BG)He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. (BH)He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 (BI)“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be (BJ)a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 (BK)Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he (BL)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 (BM)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, (BN)swooping down like the eagle, a nation (BO)whose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation (BP)who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall (BQ)eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 “They shall (BR)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And (BS)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (BT)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (BU)begrudge food to his brother, to (BV)the wife he embraces,[d] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, (BW)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 (BX)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[e] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (BY)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, (BZ)the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all (CA)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 Whereas (CB)you were as numerous (CC)as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And as the Lord (CD)took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will (CE)take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
64 “And the Lord (CF)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (CG)there you shall serve other gods (CH)of wood and stone, (CI)which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And (CJ)among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but (CK)the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and (CL)a languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 (CM)In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and (CN)the sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord (CO)will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that (CP)you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 28:22 Or sword
- Deuteronomy 28:29 Or shall not succeed in finding your ways
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Identity uncertain
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom
Deuteronomy 28
New King James Version
Blessings on Obedience(A)
28 “Now it shall come to pass, (B)if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God (C)will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and (D)overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
3 (E)“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be (F)in the country.
4 “Blessed shall be (G)the [a]fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6 (H)“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The Lord (I)will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
8 “The Lord will (J)command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you (K)set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
9 (L)“The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 10 Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are (M)called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be (N)afraid of you. 11 And (O)the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord [b]swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you His good [c]treasure, the heavens, (P)to give the rain to your land in its season, and (Q)to bless all the work of your hand. (R)You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make (S)you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you [d]heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. 14 (T)So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Curses on Disobedience(U)
15 “But it shall come to pass, (V)if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18 “Cursed shall be the [e]fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.
19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “The Lord will send on you (W)cursing, (X)confusion, and (Y)rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me. 21 The Lord will make the [f]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 22 (Z)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with (AA)scorching,[g] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (AB)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 (AC)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become [h]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 (AD)Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you with (AE)the boils of Egypt, with (AF)tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and (AG)confusion of heart. 29 And you shall (AH)grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.
30 (AI)“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; (AJ)you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; (AK)you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to (AL)another people, and your eyes shall look and (AM)fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be [i]no strength in your (AN)hand. 33 A nation whom you have not known shall eat (AO)the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. 34 So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36 “The Lord will (AP)bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and (AQ)there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. 37 And you shall become (AR)an[j] astonishment, a proverb, (AS)and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.
38 (AT)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for (AU)the locust shall [k]consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the (AV)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for (AW)they shall go into captivity. 42 Locusts shall [l]consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you [m]did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they shall be upon (AX)you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
47 (AY)“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, (AZ)for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in (BA)hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He (BB)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 (BC)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (BD)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, (BE)which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
52 “They shall (BF)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (BG)You shall eat the [n]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. 54 The [o]sensitive and very refined man among you (BH)will[p] be hostile toward his brother, toward (BI)the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55 so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 56 The [q]tender and [r]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, [s]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57 her [t]placenta which comes out (BJ)from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear (BK)this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants (BL)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 60 Moreover He will bring back on you all (BM)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62 You (BN)shall be left few in number, whereas you were (BO)as the stars of heaven in multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And it shall be, that just as the Lord (BP)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord (BQ)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be (BR)plucked[u] from off the land which you go to possess.
64 “Then the Lord (BS)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and (BT)there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. 65 And (BU)among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; (BV)but there the Lord will give you a [v]trembling heart, failing eyes, and (BW)anguish of soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 67 (BX)In the morning you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Oh, that it were morning!’ because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and (BY)because of the sight which your eyes see.
68 “And the Lord (BZ)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, (CA)‘You shall never see it again.’ And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 28:4 offspring
- Deuteronomy 28:11 promised
- Deuteronomy 28:12 storehouse
- Deuteronomy 28:13 listen to
- Deuteronomy 28:18 offspring
- Deuteronomy 28:21 pestilence
- Deuteronomy 28:22 blight
- Deuteronomy 28:25 a terror
- Deuteronomy 28:32 nothing you can do
- Deuteronomy 28:37 a thing of horror
- Deuteronomy 28:38 devour
- Deuteronomy 28:42 possess
- Deuteronomy 28:45 did not listen to
- Deuteronomy 28:53 offspring
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. tender
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. his eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:56 sensitive
- Deuteronomy 28:56 refined
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit. her eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:57 afterbirth
- Deuteronomy 28:63 torn
- Deuteronomy 28:65 anxious
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