¹¹ Yes, ^(A)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the ^(B)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

Curses on Disobedience^(A)

¹⁵ “But it shall come to pass, ^(B)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 ^[a]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 ^(C)cursing, ^(D)confusion, and ^(E)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 ^[b]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. ^22 (F)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with ^(G)scorching,^[c] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. ²³ And ^(H)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 (I)“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 ^[d]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. ^26 (J)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 ^(K)the boils of Egypt, with ^(L)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 ^(M)confusion of heart. ²⁹ And you shall ^(N)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 (O)“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; ^(P)you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; ^(Q)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 ^(R)another people, and your eyes shall look and ^(S)fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be ^[e]no strength in your ^(T)hand. ³³ A nation whom you have not known shall eat ^(U)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 ^(V)bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and ^(W)there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. ³⁷ And you shall become ^(X)an^[f] astonishment, a proverb, ^(Y)and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.

^38 (Z)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for ^(AA)the locust shall ^[g]consume it. ³⁹ You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the ^(AB)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 ^(AC)they shall go into captivity. ⁴² Locusts shall ^[h]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 ^[i]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 ^(AD)you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.

^47 (AE)“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, ^(AF)for the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸ therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in ^(AG)hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He ^(AH)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. ^49 (AI)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, ^(AJ)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance, ^(AK)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 ^(AL)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 (AM)You shall eat the ^[j]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 ^[k]sensitive and very refined man among you ^(AN)will^[l] be hostile toward his brother, toward ^(AO)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 ^[m]tender and ^[n]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, ^[o]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, ⁵⁷ her ^[p]placenta which comes out ^(AP)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 ^(AQ)this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, ⁵⁹ then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants ^(AR)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. ⁶⁰ Moreover He will bring back on you all ^(AS)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 ^(AT)shall be left few in number, whereas you were ^(AU)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 ^(AV)rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord ^(AW)will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be ^(AX)plucked^[q] from off the land which you go to possess.

⁶⁴ “Then the Lord ^(AY)will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and ^(AZ)there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And ^(BA)among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; ^(BB)but there the Lord will give you a ^[r]trembling heart, failing eyes, and ^(BC)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 (BD)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 ^(BE)because of the sight which your eyes see.

⁶⁸ “And the Lord ^(BF)will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, ^(BG)‘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.”

^26 (A)Her priests have ^[a]violated My law and ^(B)profaned My holy things; they have not ^(C)distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. ²⁷ Her ^(D)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy ^[b]people, and to get dishonest gain. ^28 (E)Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, ^(F)seeing false visions, and divining ^(G)lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. ²⁹ The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully ^(H)oppress the stranger. ^30 (I)So I sought for a man among them who would ^(J)make a wall, and ^(K)stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. ³¹ Therefore I have ^(L)poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed ^(M)their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.

²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the ^(A)farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are ^(B)uncircumcised in the heart.”

¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left ^(A)but the tribe of Judah alone.

¹⁹ Also ^(B)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. ²⁰ And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and ^(C)delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His ^(D)sight. ²¹ For ^(E)He tore Israel from the house of David, and ^(F)they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and made them commit a great sin. ²² For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, ²³ until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, ^(G)as He had said by all His servants the prophets. ^(H)So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.