Deuteronomy 28:15

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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:

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Deuteronomy 28:15

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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)

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Galatians 3:10

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The Law Brings a Curse

¹⁰For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, ^(A)“Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

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Galatians 3:10

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¹⁰For all who rely on the works of the law^(A) are under a curse,^(B) as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”^[a]^(C)

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Galatians 3:10 Deut. 27:26

Malachi 2:2

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²^(A)If you will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them ^(B)already,
Because you do not take it to heart.

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Malachi 2:2

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²If you do not listen,^(A) and if you do not resolve to honor^(B) my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse^(C) on you, and I will curse your blessings.^(D) Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

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Deuteronomy 28:2

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²And all these blessings shall come upon you and ^(A)overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:

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Deuteronomy 28:2

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²All these blessings will come on you^(A) and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

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Romans 2:8-9

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⁸but to those who are self-seeking and ^(A)do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, ⁹tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew ^(B)first and also of the ^[a]Greek;

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Romans 2:9 Gentile

Romans 2:8-9

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⁸But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,^(A) there will be wrath and anger.^(B) ⁹There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil:^(C) first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;^(D)

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Daniel 9:11-13

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¹¹Yes, ^(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. ¹²And He has ^(C)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; ^(D)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

¹³^(E)“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; ^(F)yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

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Daniel 9:11-13

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¹¹All Israel has transgressed^(A) your law^(B) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses^(C) and sworn judgments^(D) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned^(E) against you. ¹²You have fulfilled^(F) the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster.^(G) Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like^(H) what has been done to Jerusalem.^(I) ¹³Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord^(J) our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.^(K)

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Lamentations 2:17

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¹⁷The Lord has done what He ^(A)purposed;
He has fulfilled His word
Which He commanded in days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied,
And He has caused an enemy to ^(B)rejoice over you;
He has exalted the ^[a]horn of your adversaries.

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Lamentations 2:17 Strength

Lamentations 2:17

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¹⁷The Lord has done what he planned;
    he has fulfilled^(A) his word,
    which he decreed long ago.^(B)
He has overthrown you without pity,^(C)
    he has let the enemy gloat over you,^(D)
    he has exalted the horn^[a] of your foes.^(E)

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Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.

Joshua 23:15

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¹⁵^(A)Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord will bring upon you ^(B)all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

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Joshua 23:15

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¹⁵But just as all the good things^(A) the Lord your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things^(B) he has threatened, until the Lord your God has destroyed you^(C) from this good land he has given you.^(D)

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Deuteronomy 29:20

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²⁰^(A)“The Lord would not spare him; for then ^(B)the anger of the Lord and ^(C)His jealousy would burn against that man, and every curse that is written in this book would settle on him, and the Lord ^(D)would blot out his name from under heaven.

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Deuteronomy 29:20

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²⁰The Lord will never be willing to forgive^(A) them; his wrath and zeal^(B) will burn^(C) against them. All the curses written in this book will fall on them, and the Lord will blot^(D) out their names from under heaven.

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Leviticus 26:14-46

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¹⁴‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments,

¹⁵and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,

¹⁶I also will do this to you:

I will even appoint terror over you, ^(A)wasting disease and fever which shall ^(B)consume the eyes and ^(C)cause sorrow of heart.

And ^(D)you shall sow your seed ^[a]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

¹⁷I will ^[b]set ^(E)My face against you, and ^(F)you shall be defeated by your enemies.

^(G)Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall ^(H)flee when no one pursues you.

¹⁸‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you ^(I)seven times more for your sins.

¹⁹I will ^(J)break the pride of your power;

I ^(K)will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

²⁰And your ^(L)strength shall be spent in vain;

for your ^(M)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

²¹‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.

²²^(N)I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number;

and ^(O)your highways shall be desolate.

²³‘And if ^(P)by these things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁴^(Q)then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

²⁵And ^(R)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;

when you are gathered together within your cities ^(S)I will send pestilence among you;

and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

²⁶^(T)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, ^(U)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

²⁷‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,

²⁸then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;

and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

²⁹^(V)You^[c] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

³⁰^(W)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;

and My soul shall abhor you.

³¹I will lay your ^(X)cities waste and ^(Y)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not ^(Z)smell the fragrance of your ^[d]sweet aromas.

³²^(AA)I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.

³³^(AB)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;

your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

³⁴^(AC)Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;

then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

³⁵As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—

for the time it did not rest on your ^(AD)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

³⁶‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send ^(AE)faintness^[e] into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;

the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;

they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.

³⁷^(AF)They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;

and ^(AG)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

³⁸You shall ^(AH)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

³⁹And those of you who are left ^(AI)shall ^[f]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;

also in their ^(AJ)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

⁴⁰‘But ^(AK)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,

⁴¹and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;

if their ^(AL)uncircumcised hearts are ^(AM)humbled, and they ^(AN)accept their guilt—

⁴²then I will ^(AO)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;

I will ^(AP)remember the land.

⁴³^(AQ)The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;

they will accept their guilt, because they ^(AR)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.

⁴⁴Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ^(AS)I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;

for I am the Lord their God.

⁴⁵But ^(AT)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, ^(AU)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^(AV)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:

I am the Lord.’ ”

⁴⁶^(AW)These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel ^(AX)on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

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Leviticus 26:16 without profit
Leviticus 26:17 oppose you
Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
Leviticus 26:31 pleasing
Leviticus 26:36 fear
Leviticus 26:39 rot away

Leviticus 26:14-46

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Punishment for Disobedience

¹⁴“‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,^(A) ¹⁵and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws^(B) and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,^(C) ¹⁶then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever^(D) that will destroy your sight and sap your strength.^(E) You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.^(F) ¹⁷I will set my face^(G) against you so that you will be defeated^(H) by your enemies;^(I) those who hate you will rule over you,^(J) and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.^(K)

¹⁸“‘If after all this you will not listen to me,^(L) I will punish^(M) you for your sins seven times over.^(N) ¹⁹I will break down your stubborn pride^(O) and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze.^(P) ²⁰Your strength will be spent in vain,^(Q) because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.^(R)

²¹“‘If you remain hostile^(S) toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over,^(T) as your sins deserve. ²²I will send wild animals^(U) against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few^(V) in number that your roads will be deserted.^(W)

²³“‘If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction^(X) but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁴I myself will be hostile^(Y) toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. ²⁵And I will bring the sword^(Z) on you to avenge^(AA) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague^(AB) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. ²⁶When I cut off your supply of bread,^(AC) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

²⁷“‘If in spite of this you still do not listen to me^(AD) but continue to be hostile toward me, ²⁸then in my anger^(AE) I will be hostile^(AF) toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.^(AG) ²⁹You will eat^(AH) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.^(AI) ³⁰I will destroy your high places,^(AJ) cut down your incense altars^(AK) and pile your dead bodies^[a] on the lifeless forms of your idols,^(AL) and I will abhor^(AM) you. ³¹I will turn your cities into ruins^(AN) and lay waste^(AO) your sanctuaries,^(AP) and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings.^(AQ) ³²I myself will lay waste the land,^(AR) so that your enemies who live there will be appalled.^(AS) ³³I will scatter^(AT) you among the nations^(AU) and will draw out my sword^(AV) and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste,^(AW) and your cities will lie in ruins.^(AX) ³⁴Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate^(AY) and you are in the country of your enemies;^(AZ) then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. ³⁵All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest^(BA) it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

³⁶“‘As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf^(BB) will put them to flight.^(BC) They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them.^(BD) ³⁷They will stumble over one another^(BE) as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies.^(BF) ³⁸You will perish^(BG) among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.^(BH) ³⁹Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors’^(BI) sins they will waste away.^(BJ)

⁴⁰“‘But if they will confess^(BK) their sins^(BL) and the sins of their ancestors^(BM)—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, ⁴¹which made me hostile^(BN) toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts^(BO) are humbled^(BP) and they pay^(BQ) for their sin, ⁴²I will remember my covenant with Jacob^(BR) and my covenant with Isaac^(BS) and my covenant with Abraham,^(BT) and I will remember the land. ⁴³For the land will be deserted^(BU) by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected^(BV) my laws and abhorred my decrees.^(BW) ⁴⁴Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies,^(BX) I will not reject them or abhor^(BY) them so as to destroy them completely,^(BZ) breaking my covenant^(CA) with them. I am the Lord their God. ⁴⁵But for their sake I will remember^(CB) the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt^(CC) in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”

⁴⁶These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai^(CD) between himself and the Israelites through Moses.^(CE)

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Leviticus 26:30 Or your funeral offerings

Isaiah 3:11

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¹¹Woe to the wicked! ^(A)It shall be ill with him,
For the reward of his hands shall be ^[a]given him.

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Isaiah 3:11 done to him

Isaiah 3:11

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¹¹Woe to the wicked!^(A)
Disaster^(B) is upon them!
They will be paid back^(C)
for what their hands have done.^(D)

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Deuteronomy 27:15-26

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¹⁵^(A)‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, ^[a]an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’

^(B)“And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen!’

¹⁶^(C)‘Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

¹⁷^(D)‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

¹⁸^(E)‘Cursed is the one who makes the blind to wander off the road.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

¹⁹^(F)‘Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²⁰^(G)‘Cursed is the one who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s bed.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²¹^(H)‘Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²²^(I)‘Cursed is the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²³^(J)‘Cursed is the one who lies with his mother-in-law.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²⁴^(K)‘Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²⁵^(L)‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

²⁶^(M)‘Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law by observing them.’

“And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’ ”

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Deuteronomy 27:15 a detestable thing

Deuteronomy 27:15-26

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¹⁵“Cursed is anyone who makes an idol^(A)—a thing detestable^(B) to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.”

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”^(C)

¹⁶“Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.”^(D)