⁴⁵ All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you^(A) until you are destroyed,^(B) because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you.

Curses for Disobedience

¹⁵ However, 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)

²¹ “For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem my four dreadful judgments^(A)—sword^(B) and famine^(C) and wild beasts and plague^(D)—to kill its men and their animals!^(E)

⁹ I will make them abhorrent^(A) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,^(B) a curse^[a](C) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish^(D) them. ¹⁰ I will send the sword,^(E) famine^(F) and plague^(G) against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.^(H)’”

²² For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands^(A) about burnt offerings and sacrifices,^{(B) 23} but I gave them this command:^(C) Obey^(D) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.^(E) Walk in obedience to all^(F) I command you, that it may go well^(G) with you. ²⁴ But they did not listen^(H) or pay attention;^(I) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.^(J) They went backward^(K) and not forward. ²⁵ From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again^(L) I sent you my servants^(M) the prophets.^(N)